The Force of Poetry

by Christopher Ricks

Book Overview

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 of poetry," 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198183267
• ISBN13: 9780198183266
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"