Beddoes’ Best Thing
C.H. Sisson, 20 September 1984
The Force of Poetry
by Christopher Ricks.
Oxford, 447 pp., £19.50, September 1984,0 19 811722 1 Show More
by Christopher Ricks.
Oxford, 447 pp., £19.50, September 1984,
“... and Beddoes, together with a handful of 20th-century poets from A.E. Housman to Geoffrey Hill. In Wordsworth we are to attend particularly to line-endings and to prepositions, in Marvell to ‘a particular figure of speech’, in Gower to ‘diction and formulae’. The sophistication of the critic is to be given its full range but the ‘force of ... ”