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Author Ricks, Christopher, 1933- author.

Title Along heroic lines / Christopher Ricks
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages)
Contents The Best Words in the Best Order -- The Anagram -- Dryden's Heroic Triplets -- T.S. Eliot and 'Wrong'd Othello' -- Congratulations -- The Novelist as Critic -- Henry James and the Hero of the Story -- John Jay Chapman and a Vocation for Heroism -- T.S. Eliot, Byron, and Learning Actors -- Geoffrey Hill's Grievous Heroes -- Norman Mailer, Just Off the Rhythm -- Ion Bugan on the Iron Curtain -- Heroic Work by Samuel Johnson and Samuel Beckett
Summary A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed July 25, 2022)
Subject Poetry -- History and criticism.
Prose literature -- History and criticism
Literature -- History and criticism.
Literature
Poetry
Prose literature
Genre/Form essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Essays.
Essais.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192647450
0192647458
9780192647467
0192647466