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Title
Reviewery / Christopher Ricks.
Author
Ricks, Christopher, 1933-
Publication
New York : Handsel Books, [2001], ©2001.

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Description
viii, 386 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"This book collects fifty of Christopher Ricks' reviews from newspapers and journals on both side of the Atlantic - TLS, London Review of Books, New Statesman, Sunday Times (London), New Republic, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, and others - to several of which he has been a regular contributor."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
  • Lives. Robert Bernard Martin: Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life. Leon Edel, editor: Henry James: Letters Vol. III, 1883-1895. Leon Edel, editor: Henry James: Letters Vol. IV, 1895-1916. Paul Delany: The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth. Richard Ellmann: James Joyce. Leon Edel: Bloomsbury: A House of Lions. Miranda Seymour: Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. David Pryce-Jones, editor: Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir. Joseph Hone, editor: J. B. Yeats: Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats and Others, 1869-1922. Peter Ackroyd: T. S. Eliot. Christopher Sykes: Evelyn Waugh. Brendan Behan: The Scarperer and Hold Your Hour and Have Another. Norman Mailer: The Executioner's Song -- Arguments. Erving Goffman: Forms of Talk. Jennifer Platt: Realities of Social Research: An Empirical Study of British Sociologists. Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority. Norman Podhoretz: Making It. George Steiner: In Bluebeard's Castle -- Critics.
  • John Crowe Ransom: Selected Essays / Edited by Thomas Daniel Young and John Hindle. F. R. Leavis: The Living Principle: 'English' as a Discipline of Thought. W. K. Wimsatt: Day of the Leopards. William Empson: Using Biography. Jean-Paul Sartre: Saint Genet. Leslie Fiedler: What Was Literature? Class Culture and Mass Society. Donald Davie: Trying to Explain. Stanley Fish: Is There a Text in This Class? Philip Larkin: Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 -- Novelists and Poets. Ernest Hemingway: Islands in the Stream. Ivy Compton-Burnett: The Last and the First. Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children. Brian Moore: The Emperor of Ice-Cream. Brian Moore: The Mangan Inheritance. Kingsley Amis: One Fat Englishman. V. S. Naipaul: The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections. Ian McEwan: The Comfort of Strangers. Donald Davie: Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor. Donald Davie: Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric. Seamus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist.
  • Seamus Heaney: Door into the Dark. Seamus Heaney: Field Work -- Other Arts. Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media. Richard Whelan: Robert Capa: A Biography. Samuel Beckett: The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: The Shorter Plays / Edited by S. E. Gontarski. Philip Norman: Shout! The True Story of the Beatles. John Sparrow: Visible Words: A Study of Inscriptions in and as Books and Works of Art. Saul Steinberg: The Discovery of America. Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange. Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation. Frederick Wiseman: Blind. Deaf. Adjustment and Work. Multi-handicapped.
ISBN
1590510194
LCCN
2002024389
OCLC
  • ocm49495143
  • SCSB-4299497
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries