Reviewery by Christopher Ricks

Reviewery by Christopher Ricks

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"Reviewery" collects in one volume 50 pieces by a writer whom many regard as our greatest literary critic. Ricks writes compellingly about novelists, about poets, about filmmakers, sociologists, photographers and music makers. The result is an account of the cultural landscape of the 20th century.

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Reviewery by Christopher Ricks

"Reviewery" collects in one volume 50 pieces by a writer whom many regard as our greatest literary critic. Ricks writes compellingly about novelists (Waugh, Joyce and Henry James), about poets (Larkin and Eliot), about filmmakers (Kubrick and Coppola), sociologists (Goffman and McLuhan), photographers (Capa) and music makers. The result is an account of the cultural landscape of the 20th century.
Christopher Ricks is a Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and the codirector of the Editorial Institute. He was formerly Prof. of English at the universities of Bristol and Cambridge. He has published books on Milton, Tennyson, Keats, T.S.Eliot, and Beckett, and edited the standard edn of Tennyson. He lives in Boston and Gloucestershire.
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ISBN 13 9780141012988
ISBN 10 0141012986
Title Reviewery
Author Christopher Ricks
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2003-09-20
Number of pages 400
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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