The Force of Poetry
Download or Read eBook The Force of Poetry PDF written by Christopher Ricks and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Christopher Ricks |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 453 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0198183267 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780198183266 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Force of Poetry by : Christopher Ricks
Book excerpt: 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 rangefrom 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.
