Description
| Product ID: | 9780192894656 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Along Heroic Lines |
| Authors: | Author: Christopher Ricks |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-22 |
