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Tag: Christopher Ricks

267. (John Keats)

Postscript: The recognition of truth as truth, of something as true, is a particular species of judgment that is often … More

Christopher Ricks, John Keats, Literary Criticism, Poetry

236. (Christopher Ricks)

What is the appeal of criticism, of reading or doing it? It must rest in beguilement at judgment itself, and … More

Christopher Ricks, Kafka, T.S. Eliot, William Empson

218. (William Wordsworth)

Perverse as it is to redefine words against conventional meanings, it is nonetheless possible to loosen from conventional meanings an … More

Christopher Ricks, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, the body, Wordsworth

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

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Poetry, Romanticism, Shelley, tact, the body

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

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Robert Burns, Romanticism, Samuel Johnson, Scottish Literature, Thom Gunn, William Empson

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

Christopher Ricks, Criticism, Elizabethan Drama, Geoffrey Hill, Jacobean Drama, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot

166. (Christopher Ricks)

Ricks’ idiosyncratic, essentially inimitable (though it is irresistible, and can be valuable, to imitate its more superficial mannerisms and habits) … More

Christopher Ricks, Criticism

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

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin

118. (Geoffrey Hill)

Geoffrey Hill died last week, on June 30, at age 84. Nobody doubts that he wrote some of the greatest … More

Christopher Ricks, Contemporary Poetry, Geoffrey Hill, Poetry, Romanticism, T.S. Eliot

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

Christopher Ricks, Geoffrey Hill, Jim McCue, Modernism, Poetry, T.S. Eliot

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