Along heroic lines / Christopher Ricks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ricks, Christopher, 1933- author.

Contributor:

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Prose literature--History and criticism.

Prose literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Physical Description:

ix, 330 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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 his inaugural lecture engaged with the illuminatingly puzzled relations between poetry and prose. Comparison and analysis (the tools of the critic, as T.S. Eliot insisted) are enlivened by imaginative pairings: of Samuel Johnson with Samuel Beckett, of Norman Mailer with Dickens, of Shakespeare with George Herbert, or of secret-police surveillance in Ben Jonson's Rome with that of Carmen Bugan's Romania. Along Heroic Lines devotes itself to the heroic and to 'heroics' (Othello cross-examined by T.S. Eliot; Byron and role-playing; Ion Bugan, political protest and arrest). This knot is in tension with the English heroic line (Dryden's heroic triplets, Henry James's cadences, Geoffrey Hill's concluding book of prose-poems and how they choose to conclude). All alert to the balance and sustenance of alternate tones that prose and poetry can achieve in harmony."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents 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 Leading 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Ricks, Christopher. Along heroic lines.

ISBN:

9780192894656

019289465X

OCLC:

1190851595

Publisher Number:

99988704802