Tennyson by Christopher Ricks

Tennyson by Christopher Ricks

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A biographical and critical study of Tennyson aiming to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work.

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Tennyson by Christopher Ricks

A biographical and critical study of Tennyson aiming to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work.

Professor Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and co-director of the Editorial Institute. He has taught at Boston University since 1986; he was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He is the general editor of two series, Penguin English Poets and Poets in Translation, and the co-editor of Essays in Criticism. In 2002 he will deliver the Panizzi Lectures in Bibliography at the British Library.
Ricks's books include:
(ed.) The Oxford Book of English Verse (OUP 1999)
Essays in Appreciation (OUP 1996)
(ed.) Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T. S. Eliot (Fabers 1996)
Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures, 1990 (OUP 1993)
(ed.) Longman annotated poets: Tennyson (Longman 1989)
T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (Fabers 1988)
(ed.) The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987),
The Force of Poetry (OUP 1984)
Keats and Embarrassment (OUP 1974)
English Drama to 1710 (OUP 1971)#
Milton's Grand Style (OUP 1963)

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ISBN 13 9780333486559
ISBN 10 0333486552
Title Tennyson
Author Christopher Ricks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year published 1989-10-01
Number of pages 390
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