Christopher Ricks
Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks (born 18 September 1933) 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 poetry; an enthusiast of
Bob Dylan, whose lyrics he has analysed at book length; a trenchant reviewer of writers he considers pretentious (
Marshall McLuhan,
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", and
Geoffrey Hill his "unrivalled critical intelligence".
W. H. Auden described Ricks as "exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding".
John Carey calls him the "greatest living critic".
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