In this acclaimed book, Professor Ricks argues for the importance of embarrassment in human life and for the value works of art which help us deal with embarrassment by recognizing and refining it. As a poet and a man, Keats was especially sensitive to, and morally intelligent about, embarrassment. This study demonstrates the particular direction of his insight and moral concern to acknowledge embarrassability and its involvement in important moral concerns.
Reviews
As criticism, Keats and Embarrassment seems to me a work of enormous brilliance. Mr Ricks can see more in a text, and what is more, persuade us to see it too, than anyone since William Empson... * Bernard Bergonzi, The Observer *



Book Information
ISBN 9780198128298
Author Christopher Ricks
Format Paperback
Page Count 230
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 312g
Dimensions(mm) 217mm * 138mm * 13mm