Allusion to the Poets
| AUTHOR | Ricks, Christopher |
| PUBLISHER | OUP Oxford (03/11/2004) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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Christopher Ricks is among the best known living critics. His third collection of essays, several newly written for this book, is strongly focused on the theme of how writers--especially but not exclusively poets--make use of other writers' work: from the subtle courtesies of different kinds of allusion to the extreme discourtesy of plagiarism.
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ISBN-13:
9780199269150
ISBN-10:
0199269157
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Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
356
Carton Quantity:
24
Product Dimensions:
5.52 x 0.73 x 8.50 inches
Weight:
0.90 pound(s)
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Literary Criticism | Poetry
Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism | Linguistics - General
Dewey Decimal:
821.009
Library of Congress Control Number:
2002067181
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Christopher Ricks is among the best known living critics. His third collection of essays, several newly written for this book, is strongly focused on the theme of how writers--especially but not exclusively poets--make use of other writers' work: from the subtle courtesies of different kinds of allusion to the extreme discourtesy of plagiarism.
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Author:
Ricks, Christopher
Christopher Ricks is a Warren Professor of the Humanities, codirector of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and a member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He was formerly professor of English at the universities of Bristol and Cambridge.
Ricks is the author of Milton's Grand Style (1963), Tennyson (second edition, 1989), Keats and Embarrassment (1974), The Force of Poetry (1984), T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), Beckett's Dying Words (1993), Essays in Appreciation (1996), Allusion to the Poets (2002), and Reviewery (2003). He is also the editor of Poems of Tennyson (second edition, 1987), The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987), A.E. Housman: Collected Poems and Selected Prose (1988), Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T.S. Eliot (1996), The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), Selected Poems of James Henry (2002), and Decisions and Revisions in T.S. Eliot (2003).
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