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by Christopher Ricks (Author) "Augustan poetry is remarkable for its literacy allusion; the poetry creates meanings, comprehends judgements, and animates experiences, by bringing into play other works of literature..." (more)
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Laura Quinney, London Review of Books
"Ricks's forte is identifying effective poetry, and explaining why it works."

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'The close reading of poetry' [Rides] concludes, is 'a lonely activity which can yet be shared'; but he himself is unfailingly good company. (English Studies )

Read in sequence, these brilliant essays convey a noble sense of the conversation of the poetic community down the ages. (English Studies )

Ricks's forte is identifying effective poetry, and explaining why it works. (Laura Quinney, London Review of Books )

Brilliant, witty, and illuminating ... No other critic in our age ... has dared to isolate this wonderfully ramifying, richly human subject (which requires great learning, lightly worn) and given it such intensive treatment. With this book about poets and their gratitude, Ricks has earned ours. (Philip Horne, The Guardian )

Christopher Ricks's Allusion to the Poets made it clear again just what is so great about a great literary critic. (Adam Phillips, Books of the Year, Observer Review, December 2002 )

Subtly shows the way in which seven great poets have quoted their predecessors in their writings, and the richness of meaning they have gained from that. (Derwent May )

Allusion to the Poets sparkles with an enjoyment that answers repeatedly to the delighted complexity and play of alert poetic imagination: for a long time to come, all good critics will be Christopher Ricks's heirs. (Peter McDonald, Times Literary Supplement )

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