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The Force of Poetry
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Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
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ISBN10: 0198183267
ISBN13: 9780198183266
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Mar 23 1995
Pages: 462
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.77
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780198183266
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Mar 23 1995
Pages: 462
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.77
Language: English
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.
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