{"product_id":"along-heroic-lines-hardcover-2","title":"Along Heroic Lines - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Ricks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlong Heroic Lines\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Ricks\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eMilton's Grand Style\u003c\/em\u003e (1963), \u003cem\u003eTennyson, Keats and Embarrassment, The Force of Poetry, T.S.Eliot and Prejudice, Beckett's Dying Words, Essays in Appreciation, Allusion to the Poets, Dylan's Visions of Sin\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTrue Friendship\u003c\/em\u003e. He edited \u003cem\u003eThe New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Book of English Verse, The Poems of Tennyson\u003c\/em\u003e, and (with Lisa Nemrow and Julie Nemrow) \u003cem\u003eBob Dylan: The Lyrics\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as (with Jim McCue) \u003cem\u003eThe Poems of T.S.Eliot\u003c\/em\u003e (2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47333186666745,"sku":"9780192894656","price":37.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Sll3NDdXTmRjQzVIQVhIYjlFbmdEQT09_21e4016f-92c6-4248-99d4-16133499a828.webp?v=1769635225","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/along-heroic-lines-hardcover-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}