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(0)Christopher Ricks
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This critical edition of T.S. Eliot's Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains the poems of Eliot's youth, which were rediscovered only decades later, others that circulated privately during his lifetime, and love poems from his...
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The face of Robert Browning gives nothing away -- handsome and polished, it offers no hold to those who would pry into the soul behind. Its metallic mirror gives us back ourselves. But the face of Elizabeth Barret Browning speaks openly of her sufferings -- of ill health, of an iron father, of miscarriages -- yet speaking in the accents of courage and good sense. Any woman of sensitivity and talent can imagine herself as Elizabeth, in the hope that...
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Some titles of essays in the book: Whose English? by Sidney Greenbaum -- Look, Ma, I'm Talking by Sandra Gilbert -- Fighting Talk by Marina Warner -- No Opera Please-We're British by Michael Bawtree -- Changing What We Sing by Margaret Doody -- On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England today by David Dabydeen -- Talking Black by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Subway Graffiti by Walter J. Ong -- Doublespeak by William Lutz -- It's a Myth, Innit? Politeness...