Lyrics and Ironies
Christopher Ricks, 4 December 1986
The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony
by D.J. Enright.
Oxford, 178 pp., £12.95, October 1986,0 19 212253 3 Show More
by D.J. Enright.
Oxford, 178 pp., £12.95, October 1986,
Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric
by Donald Davie.
Cambridge, 76 pp., £15, September 1986,0 521 32264 2 Show More
by Donald Davie.
Cambridge, 76 pp., £15, September 1986,
“... themselves than as furnishing the perfect polemical points de repère; over the years the poems of Christopher Middleton, of J.H. Prynne, and of C.H. Sisson, have all found themselves not so much constituting the grounds of Davie’s argument as figuring in it. But Milosz is too stubborn and faceted to be functionalised, even in the most high-minded way, and ... ”