Lyrics and Ironies
Christopher Ricks, 4 December 1986
The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony
by D.J. Enright.
Oxford, 178 pp., £12.95, October 1986,0 19 212253 3 Show More
by D.J. Enright.
Oxford, 178 pp., £12.95, October 1986,
Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric
by Donald Davie.
Cambridge, 76 pp., £15, September 1986,0 521 32264 2 Show More
by Donald Davie.
Cambridge, 76 pp., £15, September 1986,
“... Freud must be very unsettling to necessitate such cushions. Enright’s poem ‘Anecdote from William IV Street’ – about a request for the works of Freud and for an artwork of Jesus Christ – succeeds in its succinct ruefulness, the melting sentiment (as Eliot said of Goldsmith) just held in check by the precision of the language. But when telling us ... ”