The Best Words in the Best Order -- The Anagram -- Dryden's Heroic Triplets -- T.S. Eliot and 'Wrong'd Othello' -- Congratulations -- The Novelist as Critic -- Henry James and the Hero of the Story -- John Jay Chapman and a Vocation for Heroism -- T.S. Eliot, Byron, and Learning Actors -- Geoffrey Hill's Grievous Heroes -- Norman Mailer, Just Off the Rhythm -- Ion Bugan on the Iron Curtain -- Heroic Work by Samuel Johnson and Samuel Beckett
Summary
A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed July 25, 2022)