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 indepenently over many years, each of the essays in this collection of his writings asks how a poets 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.
| ISBN: | 9780198183266 |
| Publication date: | 9th February 1995 |
| Author: | Christopher Ricks |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 453 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: poetry and poets |
Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H.
The Force of Poetry features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets
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The Force of Poetry was written by Christopher Ricks and published by Clarendon Press
The Force of Poetry has 453 pages
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