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Selected Poems of James Henry

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Description for Selected Poems of James Henry Hardcover.
Born in Dublin in 1798 and educated at Trinity College, James Henry was a controversially humane doctor, a passionate scholar of Virgilian manuscripts, and a lifelong interrogator of Christianity. More than a century after James Henry’s death, Christopher Ricks came upon his poems – printed but unpublished – in the Cambridge University Library. Within these volumes Ricks discovered poetry ‘unaffectedly direct, sinewy, seriously comic. And brave.’ Henry’s convictions and his humour, his idiosyncrasies and his courage, come through in work that, Ricks writes, ‘has an integrity, a consistency, for all its engaging diversity of topic and tone’. With the publication ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510116
SKU
V9781843510116
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About James Henry
CHRISTOPHER RICKS is a Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having previously taught at Oxford, Bristol 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). His other works as editor include The Brownings: Letters ... Read more

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