Authors:Christopher B. Ricks, Leonard Micahels, Christopher
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: language, state
Number of Pages: 609
Published: 1979-12
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0520037634
ISBN-13: 9780520037632

"Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing," wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. "The language is in rude health," wrote another. Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today. Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which

Author: Christopher Ricks
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: tennyson
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1989-09
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0520067843
ISBN-13: 9780520067844

This biographical and critical study of Tennyson aims 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. This edition includes upgraded references and quotations taking account of recent scholarship, notably Tennyson’s letters which have now been published. Two appendices deal with "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington". The author has written a number of books including "Milton’s Grand Style", "Keat

Author: Christopher B. Ricks
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: prejudice, eliot
Number of Pages: 297
Published: 1989-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0520065786
ISBN-13: 9780520065789

This is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice.

Authors:Various, Christopher Ricks,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, poetry, metaphysical
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-07-25
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 014042444X
ISBN-13: 9780140424447

Featuring more erotic and libertine poems, more political poems, and more poems by women, this newly revised selection of poems by the greatest poets of the seventeenth century offers a generous sampling of John Donne as well as poems by George Herbert, John Milton, Anne Bradstreet, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, the Earl of Rochester, and many more.

Author: Christopher Ricks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: verse, english, book, oxford
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 1999-12-16
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0192141821
ISBN-13: 9780192141828

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 Helen Gardner, has established itself as the foremost anthology of English poetry: ample in span, liberal in the kinds of poetry presented. This completely fresh selection brings in new poems and poets from all ages, and extends the range by another half-century, to include many twentieth-century figu

Author: Christopher Ricks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: appreciation, essays
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1998-09-24
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 0192880845
ISBN-13: 9780192880840

In Essays in Appreciation, Christopher Ricks continues the work of his highly-praised The Force of Poetry, with lively and provoking essays on poets and poetry. In addition, Ricks puts his appreciative pen in the service of other literary figures and genres, including drama, the novel, history and philosophy, and a discussion of Victorian biographies. Ricks wraps up the collection with a series of critical questions on literature and theory; plus two notes--on the canon, and on Empson and political criticism. W.H. Auden once wrote of Christopher Ricks that "he is exactly the kind of critic eve

Author: Christopher Ricks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: poets, allusion
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-03-11
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0199269157
ISBN-13: 9780199269150

Christopher Ricks is among the best known living critics. His third collection of essays, several newly written for this book, is strongly focused on the theme of how writers--especially but not exclusively poets--make use of other writers’ work: from the subtle courtesies of different kinds of allusion to the extreme discourtesy of plagiarism.