Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Along Heroic Lines
Author(s): Ricks Christopher (William M. And Sara B. Warren Professor Of Humanities Boston University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192894656
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 7/1/2021
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers