| The Force of Poetry Revised Edition Contributor(s): Ricks, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198183267 ISBN-13: 9780198183266 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as "the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding." Though published independently over many years, each of the essays in this collection asks how a poet's words reveal the "force of poetry," that force--in Dr Johnson's words--"which calls new power into being, which embodies sentiment, and animates matter." The poets covered range from John Gower, Marvell, and Milton to Wordsworth, Empson, Stevie Smith, Lowell, and Larkin, and the book contains four wider essays on cliches, lies, misquotations, and American English. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 821.009 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.12" W x 7.77" (0.63 lbs) 462 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding. Though published independently over many years, each of the essays in this collection asks how a poet's words reveal the force of poetry, that force--in Dr Johnson's words--which calls new power into being, which embodies sentiment, and animates matter. The poets covered range from John Gower, Marvell, and Milton to Wordsworth, Empson, Stevie Smith, Lowell, and Larkin, and the book contains four wider essays on clichés, lies, misquotations, and American English. |