The Force of Poetry
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0198183267
ISBN-13
9780198183266
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 9th, 1995
Print length
462 Pages
Weight
516 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 12.80 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essaysLiterary studies: poetry & poets
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The majority of essays in this collection question how a poet's words reveal the force of his or her poetry. The poets covered include Milton, Wordsworth, Lowell and Larkin. The volume also features four wider essays on cliches, lies, misquotations and American 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 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.
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