Essays in appreciation / Christopher Ricks.

Includes index.

Doctor Faustus and hell on earth -- John Donne: "Farewell to love" -- The wit and weight of Clarendon -- George Crabbe's thoughs of confinement -- Jane Austen and the business of mothering -- Victorian lives: E.C. Gaskell's Charlotte Bronte ; Froude's Carlyle ; Tennyson's Tennyson ; George Eliot: "She was still young" -- A note on Hardy's "A spellbound palace" -- Racine's Phèdre, Lowell's Phaedra -- Austin's swink -- Literature and the matter of fact -- Literary principles as against theory -- Criticism at the present time: two notes : 1. What is at stake in the "battle of the books"? ; 2. William Empson and "the loony hooters."

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