Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Christopher Ricks
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
{{short description|British literary critic and scholar (born 1933)}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox writer | name = Christopher Bruce Ricks | embed = | honorific_prefix = Sir | honorific_suffix = [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1933|9|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Beckenham]], [[United Kingdom]] | occupation = Critic, scholar, professor | language = | nationality = British | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = [[Balliol College, Oxford]] | period = | genre = Literary criticism | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = | notableworks = <!-- or: | notablework = --> | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = 2003 Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc; or omit --> }} '''Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks''' {{Post-nominals|country=UK|FBA}} (born 18 September 1933)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wroe |first=Nicholas |date=2005-01-29 |title=Bringing it all back home |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jan/29/poetry.oxforduniversity |access-date=2023-09-08 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> is a British [[literary critic]] and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at [[Boston University]] (US), co-director of the [[Editorial Institute]] at [[Boston University]], and was [[Professor of Poetry]] at the [[University of Oxford]] (UK) from 2004 to 2009. In 2008, he served as president of the [[Association of Literary Scholars and Critics]]. He is known as a champion of [[Victorian literature#Poetry|Victorian poetry]]; an enthusiast of [[Bob Dylan]], whose lyrics he has analysed at book length;<ref>Michael Gray (2006), ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'', p. 571.</ref> a trenchant reviewer<ref>A collection is in ''Reviewery''.</ref> of writers he considers pretentious ([[Marshall McLuhan]], [[Christopher Norris (critic)|Christopher Norris]], [[Geoffrey Hartman]], [[Stanley Fish]]); and a warm reviewer of those he thinks humane or humorous ([[F. R. Leavis]], [[W. K. Wimsatt]], [[Christina Stead]]). [[Hugh Kenner]] praised his "intent eloquence",<ref>[[Hugh Kenner]], ''A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers'', Knopf, New York 1988, p. 245</ref> and [[Geoffrey Hill]] his "unrivalled critical intelligence".<ref>[[Geoffrey Hill]], ''Collected Critical Writings'', OUP, Oxford 2008, p. 379</ref> [[W. H. Auden]] described Ricks as "exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding".<ref>''Oxford Book of English Verse'', ed. Ricks, OUP 1999</ref> [[John Carey (critic)|John Carey]] calls him the "greatest living critic".<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=John Carey in conversation with Clive James |url=http://www.clivejames.com/carey |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119101124/http://www.clivejames.com/carey |archive-date=2012-01-19 |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=clivejames.com}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)