{"product_id":"essays-in-appreciation","title":"Essays in Appreciation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe successor to the highly-praised collection of Christopher Rickss The Force of Poetry, this collection of critical essays still attends to poets and poetry: to John Donnes farewells to love, George Crabbes constraints, Hardys readings of history, and Robert Lowell as translator of Racine.  But other literary worlds are also appreciated in Essays in Appreciation. Drama: Marlowes Doctor Faustus and the plague.  History: the Earl of\n\u003cbr\u003eClarendon and composition.  The novel: Jane Austen and mothering. Victorian lives: E. C. Gaskells Charlotte Brontë, Froudes Carlyle, Hallam Tennysons Tennyson, and George Eliot and her age.  Philosophy: J. L. Austin and his art of\n\u003cbr\u003eallusion.  Finally, critical questions: literature and the matter of fact, and literary principles against theory; plus two notes on current critical issuesone on talk of the canon, and the other on Empson and political criticism. literary criticism of an intellectual zestfulness which makes everyone else in the field look half asleep The Spectator Ricks's grasp of literary detail is unequalled  he has a microscopic eye\n\u003cbr\u003efor distinguishment of shades of meaning, with their bearings on emotional definition  Anyone who has a feeling for literature will enjoy Essays in Appreciation.  If you have none, here are good reasons to\n\u003cbr\u003ecultivate it. Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46058742251758,"sku":"9780192880840","price":86.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780192880840.jpg?v=1736481917","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/essays-in-appreciation","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}