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James Henry (1798-1876) was a controversially humane doctor in Dublin, elected Vice President of the College of Physicians in 1832. Thirteen years later, receiving a large legacy on the death of his mother, he gave up the practice of medicine to begin more than twenty years of journeying through Europe on foot, with his wife and daughter, studying Virgilian manuscripts and rare editions, translating The Aeneid, and writing poems.
More than a century after Henry's death, Christopher Ricks came upon a book of his poems -- printed at his own expense and with their pages still uncut -- in the Cambridge University Library. Here was poetry, Ricks writes in his introduction to this volume, "unaffectedly direct, sinewy, seriously comic. And "brave" from a man who "had integrity, moral, political, and spiritual." 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 worthy of our time.
"What a find Ricks has here! Such a pleasant personality, even when contemplating the backward and forward abysm in which we all find ourselves. That poem of a man with the cigar, woman with a basket - how profound, how amusing, how accurate, how sad. Hoorah for Henry."
-Charles Tomlinson
"Henry is special. There’s no one like him."
-Philip Levine
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Christopher Ricks, is the leading textual editor of poetry in the English language, and one of our finest critics. His books include Milton's Grand Style, Keats and Embarrassment, Beckett's Dying Words, and T.S. Eliot and Prejudice. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse.
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Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 1184687