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1	Dylan's Visions of Sin more books like this by Christopher Ricks Bob Dylan's ways with words are a wonder, matched as they are with his music and verified by those voices of his. In response to the whole range of Dylan early and late (his songs of social conscience, of earthly love, of divine love and of contemplation), this critical appreciation listens to Dylan's attentive genius, to his apprehension of ... see all copies from $2.66! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Oxford Book of English Verse more books like this by Christopher B Ricks (Editor) Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen Gardner, has established itself as the ... see all copies from $11.98! new only from $21.17! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tennyson more books like this by Christopher B. Ricks This biographical and critical study of Tennyson aims to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work. This edition includes upgraded references and quotations taking account of recent scholarship, notably ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $45.38! \| first editions
4	Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 more books like this by Professor T S Eliot, Christopher Ricks (Editor) This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios. " Perhaps the most significant event in Eliot scholarship in the past twenty-five years" (New York Times Book Review). Edited by Christopher Ricks. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.00! \| first editions
5	The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse more books like this by Christopher Ricks (Editor) One of the great ages of poetry speaks for itself in this compendious anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets both reflected and resisted the attitudes of their era are keenly demonstrated. The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse brings out in its introduction by Christopher Ricks, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.61! \| first editions
6	The Faber Book of America more books like this by Christopher Ricks (Editor), William L Vance (Editor) Gathering together poetry and memoirs, speeches and letters, fiction and reportage, the editors of this book present the world of the American dream, of American nightmares, and of American days. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	T.S. Eliot and prejudice more books like this by Christopher Ricks This is an examination of T.S. Eliot's poetry in which the author considers the works against a background of the social and political problems of prejudice. Eliot was writing at a time of great contradiction in thought; never has the accusation of prejudice been stronger, and yet never has there been so wide an agreement that no understanding of ... see all copies from $9.17! new only from $37.80! \| first editions
8	Essays in Appreciation more books like this by Christopher Ricks The successor to the highly-praised collection of Christopher Rickss The Force of Poetry, this collection of critical essays still attends to poets and poetry: to John Donnes farewells to love, George Crabbes constraints, Hardys readings of history, and Robert Lowell as translator of Racine. But other literary worlds are also appreciated in ... see all copies from $7.15! new only from $39.75! \| first editions
9	Allusion to the Poets more books like this by Christopher Ricks Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry's power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays - four published here for the first time - on allusion and its relations, in particular on the ... see all copies from $14.49! new only from $19.22! \| first editions
10	The State of the Language more books like this by Christopher Ricks (Editor), Leonard Michaels (Editor) Essayists include Kingsley Amis, M. F. K. Fisher, Ted Hughes, Alison Lurie, Robert MacNeil, Walter Ong, among others. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
11	Poems of Tennyson more books like this by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Bar, Christopher Ricks (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	English drama to 1710 more books like this by Christopher Ricks (Editor) The essays in this third volume of "The Penguin History of Literature" aim to give the modern reader a sense of the many contexts within which drama exists. By presenting different aspects of the drama of the period, a wider perspective is gained. What distinguishes drama from other forms of literature? In answering this question Glynne Wickham ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $59.95! \| first editions
13 view cover	Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990 more books like this by Christopher Ricks Most people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth - the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient-enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. Beckett is the supreme writer of an age which has ... see all copies from $12.07! new only from $29.88! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Samuel Menashe, Christopher Ricks (Editor) Born in New York city in 1925, Samuel Menashe has practiced his art of compression and crystallization (in Derek Mahon's phrase) in poems that are brief in form but startingly wide-ranging and profound in their engagement with ultimate questions. Dana Gioia has written: Menashe is essentially a religious poet, though one without an orthodox creed. ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $12.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	English poetry and prose 1540-1674 more books like this by Christopher Ricks see all copies from $1.99! first editions
16 view cover	Force of Poetry more books like this by Christopher Ricks "As critic and scholar he calls tremendously on his knowledge of literature past and present to provide new insights, aspects and illuminations....Ricks looks at poetry over a considerable range, a lively critic who assures us through clarifying analysis of its power and force in our lives."--The New York Times Book Review. "A work of enormous ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $39.32! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Keats & Embarrassment more books like this by Christopher Ricks In this acclaimed book, Professor Ricks argues for the importance of embarrassment in human life and for the value works of art which help us deal with embarrassment by recognizing and refining it. As a poet and a man, Keats was especially sensitive to, and morally intelligent about, embarrassment. This study demonstrates the particular direction ... see all copies from $13.40! new only from $46.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18	The Brownings: letters and poetry. more books like this by Christopher B. Ricks (Compiled by), Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning (Barrett) see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19 view cover	Reviewery more books like this by Christopher Ricks A collection of 50 of Christopher Ricks's reviews from the TLS, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, and other publications, REVIEWERY contains Ricks's opinions on such major literary figures as Seamus Heaney, V.S. Naipaul, Ezra Pound, Leslie Fiedler, Stanley Fish, and F. R. Leavis, as well as on the ... see all copies from $8.04! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Milton's Grand Style more books like this by Christopher Ricks Milton's Grand Style has been vigorously attacked in the twentieth century, and this book is an attempt to refute Milton's detractors by showing the delicacy and subtlety which is to be found in the verse of `Paradise Lost'. see all copies from $19.00! new only from $39.38! \| SVS
21 view cover	Collected poems and selected prose more books like this by A. E. Housman, Christopher Ricks This volume contains all of Housman's poetry (including his nonsense verse) It also includes a selection of Housman's critical prose, notably his lecture "On the Name and Nature of Poetry", as well as a selection from his letters. see all copies from $12.11!
22	The State of the language : 1990 edition more books like this by Christopher Ricks, Leonard Michaels The 1990 version, prepared by the same editors as the original 1980 edition, includes an entirely new set of essays, stories and poems to reflect the changes in Standard English as well as the changes in the political and sexual landscapes. see all copies from $2.34! first editions
23 view cover	The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse more books like this by Christopher Ricks (Editor) A great age of poetry speaks for itself in this anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented - Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins - but not so as to crowd out the ... see all copies from $5.70! new only from $15.53!
24 view cover	English Poetry and Prose 1540-1674 more books like this by Various, Christopher Ricks (Editor) The essays in this volume are intended to give a modern reader a sense of the many contexts within which literature exists. The particular angle or emphasis is the contributor's choice. Thus Spenser's work is discussed in relation to his life and times; Shakespeare's sonnets are explored as transforming a specific genre; while Marvell is read in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.26!
25	Poems and critics: an anthology of poetry and criticism from Shakespeare to Hardy more books like this by Christopher B. Ricks (Editor) see all copies from $2.95! first editions

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