Christopher Ricks

Allusion to the Poets

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Produktbeschreibung

The second half of the book is six essays on allusion's affiliations: to plagiarism (allusion being plagiarism's responsible opposite); to metaphor (allusion being a form that metaphor may take); to loneliness in poetry (allusion constituting company); to allusion within poetry to prose (on A E. Housman); to translation as exercising allusion (on David Ferry); and to the clash between one poet's practice and his critical principles (on Yvor Winters).

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Christopher Ricks is among the best known living critics. His third collection of essays, several newly written for this book, is strongly focused on the theme of how writers--especially but not exclusively poets--make use of other writers' work: from the subtle courtesies of different kinds of allusion to the extreme discourtesy of plagiarism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9780199269150
• ISBN-10: 0199269157
• Artikelnr.: 22229956

Autorenporträt

Professor Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and co-director of the Editorial Institute. He has taught at Boston University since 1986; he was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He is the general editor of two series, Penguin English Poets and Poets in Translation, and the co-editor of Essays in Criticism. In 2002 he delivered the Panizzi Lectures in Bibliography at the British Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Prefatory Note
I.
The Poet as Heir
Dryden and Pope
Burns
Wordsworth
Byron
Keats
Tennyson
II.
In the Company of Allusion
Plagiarism
The Pursuit of Metaphor
Loneliness and Poetry
A. E. Housman and 'the colour of his hair'
Yvor Winters: Allusion and Pseudo-Reference
David Ferry and the Shades of the Dead
Acknowledgements
Index