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Christopher B. Ricks |
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Literary Criticism |
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Fowler, Alastair, Times Literary Supplement: "Rick's lifelong commitment to literature (rather than theoretical ideas about it) has enabled him to know many apt, well-focused passages, which almost speak for themselves. As much as anything, this makes his criticism more impressive than theory. Anyone who has a feeling for literature will enjoy 'Essays in Appreciation'. If you have none, here are reasons to cultivate it. And, if you suspect literature, here are reasons to renews your trust." |
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Format: Paperback, 384
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (September 24, 1998)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 0.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9780192880840 |
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The successor to Christopher Ricks's The Force of Poetry, this collection of critical essays still attends to poets and poetry: to John Donne's farewells to love, George Crabbe's constraints, Hardy's reading of history, and Robert Lowell as translator of Racine. But other literary worlds are also appreciated in Essays in Appreciation. Drama: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the plague. History: the Earl of Clarendon and composition. The novel: Jane Austen and mothering. Victorian lives: E. C. Gaskell's Charlotte Bronte; Froude's Carlyle; Hallam Tennyson's Tennyson; and George Eliot and her age. Philosophy: J. L. Austin and his art of allusion. Finally, critical questions: Literature and the matter of fact, and literary principles as against theory; plus two notes on criticism at the present time, one on talk of the canon, and the other on Empson and political criticism. |
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