Keats and embarrassment - Hardcover

Christopher Ricks

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198120559 ISBN 13: 9780198120551

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1974

Synopsis

In this acclaimed book, Professor Ricks argues for the importance of embarrassment in human life and for the value works of art which help us deal with embarrassment by recognizing and refining it. As a poet and a man, Keats was especially sensitive to, and morally intelligent about, embarrassment. This study demonstrates the particular direction of his insight and moral concern to acknowledge embarrassability and its involvement in important moral concerns.

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and co-director of the Editorial Institute. He has taught at Boston University since 1986; he was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge.

Review

"As criticism, Keats and Embarrassment seems to me a work of enormous brilliance. Mr Ricks can see more in a text, and what is more, persuade us to see it too, than anyone since William Empson..."--Bernard Bergonzi, The Observer

"Professor Ricks is perhaps the most tactful critical analyst of poetic language we now have. The new insight he offers us into the sensuous and intelligent organisation of the "Eve of St. Agnes", and the "Ode to Autumn", is startling, brilliant, and authoritative."--A.S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0198120559
• ISBN 13: 9780198120551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 232