9781590510216 - Selected Poems of James Henry von Henry, James; Ricks, Christopher B. (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Still in shrink wrap.

Zustand: Sehr gut. 180 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - James Henry (1798-1876) was a controversially humane doctor in Dublin, a passionate scholar of Virgilian manuscripts in Europe, and a lifelong interrogator of the Christian religion. His convictions and his humor, his idiosyncrasies and his courage, were realized by him in poems of gravity and levity that gained no attention in his day, but are worth our time. More than a century after James Henrys death, Christopher Ricks came upon a book of his poemsprinted at his own expense and with their pages still uncutin the Cambridge University library. Here was poetry unaffectedly direct, sinewy, seriously comic. And brave. From a man who had integrity-intellectual, moral, political, and spiritualso his work has an integrity, a consistency for all its engaging diversity of topic and tone. This collection of the best of James Henrys poems at last allows us to hear the voice of a remarkable poet. - CRISTOPHER RICKS is a Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having previously taught at Oxford and Cambridge. He has published books on Milton, Tennyson, Keats, T.S. Eliot, and Beckett, as well as two collections of critical essays. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999). ISBN 9781590510216 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 423 Original cloth with dust jacket.