Christopher Ricks (ed.)

The Oxford Book of English Verse

Ed. by Christopher Ricks

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Christopher Ricks's 'Oxford Book of English Verse' -- third in succession, after Arthur Quiller-Couch's original volume (1900) and Helen Gardner's new selection (1972) -- is a treasury from more than seven centuries of the poet's art. Poems that are also translations are included.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1022g
• ISBN-13: 9780192141828
• ISBN-10: 0192141821
• Artikelnr.: 14966930

Autorenporträt

One of the best-known living literary critics. The W. H. Auden quotation (see Full Description) is from a review of Ricks's Longman edition of Tennyson. He writes: 'Reading Professor Ricks's comments and observations convinces me that he is exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding. No poet wants either uncritical admirers or decoders who discover in his poems secret symbols and meanings which never entered his mind. But every poet thinks of himself as a craftsman, a maker of verbal objects: what he hopes for is that critics will notice the technical means by which he secures his effects. Alas, so few critics do. Professor Ricks is a happy exception.'

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
POEMS
Index of Authors
Index of Foreign Authors in Translation or Imitation
Index of Titles and First Lines