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Along Heroic Lines (Hardcover)
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Along Heroic Lines (Hardcover)
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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.
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