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9780192141828
"Up to about 1945, he shows a fine ability to select poems that are characteristic of their authors yet surprising, distinctive without being self-parodic. And if there's sometimes a whiff of perversity about his neglect of obvious merit...he gives his readers a feast that is satisfying as well as spectacular....[Ricks's] OXFORD BOOK pays the honourable price of refusing to dumb down....[H]is selection of poems is rewardingly the work of an exceptional critic."Ricks, Christopher is the author of 'Oxford Book of English Verse', published 1999 under ISBN 9780192141828 and ISBN 0192141821.
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