The Force of Poetry
Christopher Ricks
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The majority of essays in this collection question how a poet's words reveal the force of his or her poetry. The poets covered include Milton, Wordsworth, Lowell and Larkin. The volume also features four wider essays on cliches, lies, misquotations and American English.
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