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The Oxford Book of English Verse
Av Christopher (Warren Professor ... Ricks, Christopher Ricks
Inbunden, 1999
312 kr
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Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by …
What Maisie Knew
Av Henry James, Christopher Ricks
Häftad, 2010
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English upper-class society. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds …
Selected Poems: Tennyson
Av Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christopher Ricks
Häftad, 2007
179 kr
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As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.'Into the jaw of DeathInto the mouth of HellRode the six hundred'The works in this volume …
Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I
Collected and Uncollected Poems
Av T. S. Eliot, Christopher Ricks m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
312 kr
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Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies AssociationThe Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest …
Dylan's Visions of Sin
Häftad, 2011
192 kr
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'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second''It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its approach and the virtuosity of its execution.Ricks examines Dylan's songs through the biblical …
Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I
Collected and Uncollected Poems
Av T. S. Eliot, Christopher Ricks m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
504 kr
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Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies AssociationThe Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest …
John Donne: Collected Poetry
Av John Donne, Christopher Ricks m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
374 kr
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Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant …
John Donne: Collected Poetry
Av John Donne, Christopher Ricks m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
125 kr
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Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant …
Selected Poems
Av Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christopher Ricks
E-bok, 2004
96 kr
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'Tennyson', wrote T. S. Eliot, 'has the finest ear of any English poet since Milton,' and his verse remains unrivalled in its combination of verbal richness, emotional depth and intellectual engagement. Tennyson drew on classical and medieval legends in poems like 'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) and 'The …
Allusion to the Poets
E-bok, 2002
431 kr
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Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry''s power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays - four published here for the first time - …
Along Heroic Lines
E-bok, 2021
317 kr
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A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, when …
Along Heroic Lines
E-bok, 2021
317 kr
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A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, when …
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen
On the Novel and Journalism
Av Christopher Ricks, Christopher Ricks
Inbunden, 2023
3287 kr
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James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is still highly valued as a judge, as the historian of the criminal law of England, and as the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a forthright disagreement with John Stuart Mill. Stephen's weekly journalism established him as a vigorous cross-examiner in …
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen
On the Novel and Journalism
E-bok, 2023
4090 kr
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James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is still highly valued as a judge, as the historian of the criminal law of England, and as the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity , a forthright disagreement with John Stuart Mill. Stephen''s weekly journalism established him as a vigorous cross-examiner in …
Along Heroic Lines
Inbunden, 2021
403 kr
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A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, when …
Milton's Grand Style
Häftad, 1978
1240 kr
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'Milton's Grand Style' has been vigorously attacked in the 20th century, and this book is an attempt to refute Milton's detractors by showing the delicacy and subtlety which is to be found in the verse of Paradise Lost'.
Keats and Embarrassment
Häftad, 1984
1472 kr
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In this acclaimed book, Professor Ricks argues for the importance of embarrassment in human life and for the value works of art which help us deal with embarrassment by recognizing and refining it. As a poet and a man, Keats was especially sensitive to, and morally intelligent about, embarrassment. …
The Force of Poetry
Häftad, 1995
1261 kr
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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 …
Allusion to the Poets
Inbunden, 2002
839 kr
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Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry's power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays - four published here for the first time - on …
Allusion to the Poets
Häftad, 2004
1029 kr
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Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry's power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays - four published here for the first time - on …
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Häftad, 2008
203 kr
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A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented - …
True Friendship
Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound
E-bok, 2010
246 kr
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"[From a] critic of unrivaled authority . . .[E]ssays on three late-twentieth-century poets. . . .[and] their literary debts to T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound." — Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of BooksTrue Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century—Geoffrey Hill, …
True Friendship
Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound
Häftad, 2011
393 kr
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True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell—through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated, with Eliot and …
Tennyson
Häftad, 1989
579 kr
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A biographical and critical study of Tennyson aiming to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work.
Poems of T. S. Eliot: Volume II
Practical Cats and Further Verses
Av T. S. Eliot, Christopher Ricks m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
312 kr
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The second volume of the first paperback edition of The Poems of T. S. Eliot This two-volume critical edition of T. S. Eliot’s poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909–1962 , rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot’s astonishing …
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Av John Milton, Christopher Ricks
Häftad, 2010
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
194 kr
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John Milton's classic epic poems in one pocket-sized volumeThese controversial biblical poems explore the story of Adam and Eve, Satan, and the fall of man. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in …
State of the Language
New Observations, Objections, Angers, Bemusements, Hilarities, Perplexities, Revelations, Prognostications, and Warnings for the 1990s.
Av Christopher Ricks, Leonard Michaels
Häftad, 2018
973 kr
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