{"product_id":"the-force-of-poetry-9780198183266","title":"The Force of Poetry","description":"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, Marvell, and Milton to Wordsworth, Empson, Stevie Smith, Lowell, and Larkin, and the book contains four wider essays on clichés, lies, misquotations, and American English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Ricks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clarendon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.77h x 5.12w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198183266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher 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'. He is author of \u003cem\u003eBeckett's Dying Words\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 1993), \u003cem\u003eKeats and Embarrassment\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 1974), and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Oxford, 1987).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clarendon Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40756439875699,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":109.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8d08644e-30e3-4328-bb77-ad1d7f163c02.jpg?v=1678803321","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-force-of-poetry-9780198183266","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}