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Tag: Christopher Ricks
236. (Christopher Ricks)
What is the appeal of criticism, of reading or doing it? It must rest in beguilement at judgment itself, and … More
218. (William Wordsworth)
Perverse as it is to redefine words against conventional meanings, it is nonetheless possible to loosen from conventional meanings an … More
211. (Percy Shelley)
Shelley’s poetry has challenged some of the finest critics, and even Hazlitt, who stands opposed to Shelley’s most notable detractors, … More
176. (Robert Burns)
It’s difficult to know what to do with Robert Burns, besides read and enjoy him, and take fortification from him; … More
171. (T.S. Eliot)
Among Eliot’s staunchest and nimblest readers, Christopher Ricks was unrelenting in his 1978 attack on Eliot’s late essay, “What … More
166. (Christopher Ricks)
Ricks’ idiosyncratic, essentially inimitable (though it is irresistible, and can be valuable, to imitate its more superficial mannerisms and habits) … More
144. (Philip Larkin)
[COMPLETE VERSION.] A chief complaint against Larkin is the insularity, his reaction to modernism that confuses an affirmation of Hardy’s special … More
118. (Geoffrey Hill)
Geoffrey Hill died last week, on June 30, at age 84. Nobody doubts that he wrote some of the greatest … More
100. (T.S. Eliot)
All poetry orients itself, to knowledge, to others, to the world or something beyond it; Eliot’s poetry stoically queries and … More
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