Along Heroic Lines
Author:   Christopher Ricks (William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of Humanities, Boston University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192894656


Pages:   342
Publication Date:   22 April 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Christopher Ricks (William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of Humanities, Boston University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9780192894656


ISBN 10:   019289465
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   22 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Prefatory Note 1: The Best Words in the Best Order 2: The Anagram 3: Dryden's Heroic Triplets 4: T.S. Eliot and 'Wrong'd Othello' 5: Congratulations 6: The Novelist as Critic 7: Henry James and the Hero of the Story 8: John Jay Chapman and a Vocation for Heroism 9: T.S. Eliot, Byron, and Learning Actors 10: Geoffrey Hill's Grievous Heroes 11: Norman Mailer, Just Off the Rhythm 12: Ion Bugan on the Iron Curtain 13: Heroic Work by Samuel Johnson and Samuel Beckett

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The depth and delicacy of Ricks's critical tracery - he both traces allusions and weaves them together - are enough to make one feel stupid for not having seen it all before. * Colin Burrow, London Review of Books * Ricks corrects easy critical assumptions in ways that would entertain any literature lover [... ] Ricks' close readings go beyond mere opinion: he is showing you exactly what the poet was up to. * John Mullan, Prospect * Ricks, our greatest living critic, restores a world to coherence that seemed to be dissolving into the Twittersphere * Lee Oser, Literary Matters * Full of verbal fireworks, witty quick-changing tones, highly stimulating to say the least. * William H. Pritchard, Hudson Review *


Full of verbal fireworks, witty quick-changing tones, highly stimulating to say the least. * William H. Pritchard, Hudson Review *


Author Information

Christopher Ricks is the author of Milton's Grand Style (1963), Tennyson, Keats and Embarrassment, The Force of Poetry, T.S.Eliot and Prejudice, Beckett's Dying Words, Essays in Appreciation, Allusion to the Poets, Dylan's Visions of Sin, and True Friendship. He edited The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse and The Oxford Book of English Verse, The Poems of Tennyson, and (with Lisa Nemrow and Julie Nemrow) Bob Dylan: The Lyrics, as well as (with Jim McCue) The Poems of T.S.Eliot (2015).

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