The Force of PoetryClarendon Press, 1984 - 447 pagina's 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 independently over many years, each of the essays in this collection asks how a poet's words reveal the "force ofpoetry," 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 cliches, lies, misquotations, and American English. |
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Metamorphosis in other words | 1 |
Its own resemblance | 34 |
Sound and sense in Paradise Lost | 60 |
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A. E. Housman alive American English Arnold atonement Beddoes Beddoes's begetting blood brackets breath British English cliché Coleridge create criticism dark dead death Donne Dream Songs Dylan effect Empson Empson's poems Essays eyes feel forto Geoffrey Hill Gower's heart Hill's Housman human hyphen imagination Johnson Kenyon Review kind language Larkin lie/lie light line-ending literary live Lords of Limit lovers Lowell Lowell's Marvell Marvell's matter means metaphor Milton mind mystery nature never numbers once pain paradox parenthesis Pater phrase play poet poetic poetry praise Prelude prepositions prose punctuation reflexive Renaissance rhyme Robert Lowell sche sense sentence sequence Shakespeare silence simply slang song speak stanza Stevie Smith story T. S. Eliot tell Tenebrae Tennyson thing thou thought true truth turn verse violence voice W. H. Auden William Empson words Wordsworth write