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Christopher Ricks

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#84

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According to Wikipedia, Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University , co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford 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 ; and a warm reviewer of those he thinks humane or humorous . 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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To J.S. (2014) (237)
The poems of Tennyson (1958) (202)
Keats and Embarrassment (1975) (110)
THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE (1999) (98)
Allusion to the Poets (2002) (88)
Milton's Grand Style (1963) (69)
The Force of Poetry (1984) (62)
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 (1998) (58)
Tennyson, A Selected edition (1989) (51)
Beckett's Dying Words (1993) (50)
The State of the language (1991) (49)
Dryden’s triplets (2004) (45)
A dissertation upon English typographical founders and founderies 1778 with a catalogue and specimen of the typefoundry of John James 1782 (1963) (41)
The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2016) (39)
Dylan's Visions of Sin (2004) (35)
T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988) (34)
Lies (1975) (34)
The poems of Tennyson : in three volumes (1987) (32)
True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (2010) (24)
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1990) (17)
Essays in Appreciation (1996) (17)
The Moral and Poetic Structure of The Changeling (1960) (16)
Beckett's dying words : the Clarendon lectures, 1990 (1995) (11)
The expelled ; the calmative ; the end ; with First love (2009) (11)
Collected Poems and Selected Prose (1988) (10)
The crisis in criticism (1984) (10)
The Charge of the Light Brigade : The creation of a Poem (1985) (10)
English Drama To 1710 (1971) (10)
Tennyson, the manuscripts at the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin (1992) (8)
Wordsworth: ‘A Pure Organic Pleasure from the Lines’ (1971) (8)
Collected and uncollected poems (2015) (7)
Allusion: The Poet as Heir (1976) (7)
Austin's Swink (1992) (6)
The Mouth, the Meal and the Book: Review of Field Work (1997) (6)
Sejanus and Dismemberment (1961) (6)
A.E. Housman : a collection of critical essays (1968) (5)
Tennyson : a selected edition incorporating the Trinity College manuscripts (1989) (5)
English poetry and prose, 1540-1674 (1986) (5)
Decisions and Revisions in T.S. Eliot (2004) (4)
Shakespeare and the anagram (2003) (4)
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (2018) (3)
In Memoriam 1850 (1972) (3)
Milton, Mannerism and Baroque@@@Dante, Michelangelo and Milton@@@Milton's Grand Style@@@Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost (1965) (3)
To Criticize the Critic (2019) (2)
Keats’s sources, Keats’s allusions (2001) (2)
The Faber Book of America (1992) (2)
A. E. Housman and ‘ the colour of his hair ’ (1997) (2)
A Note on Little Gidding (1975) (2)
Battle of Brunanburh (2014) (2)
The Nature of Housman's Poetry (1964) (2)
Wiseman's Witness (1989) (2)
Stevie Smith: "Great Is Truth and Will Prevail in a Bit" (1981) (2)
The Pink Toads in Lord Jim (1981) (2)
Doctor Faustus and Hell on Earth F. W. BATESON MEMORIAL LECTURE (1985) (1)
A debt of Pope to Swift (1959) (1)
Tennyson Inheriting the Earth (1981) (1)
Selected Poems Of James Henry (2002) (1)
Tennyson, the manuscripts at Trinity College, Cambridge (1988) (1)
Idylls of the King 1859 – 1885 (1972) (1)
For Marilyn Gaull (2022) (1)
In Memoriam A. H. H. (2014) (1)
Simile and Cross-reference (1978) (1)
Practical cats and further verses (2015) (1)
Mailer's Primal Words (1983) (1)
Up for Interpretation or What Is This Thing that Hearsay Is Not (2012) (1)
The Poems of Tennyson@@@The Living Will: A Study of Tennyson and Nineteenth-Century Subjectivism@@@Man and Myth in Victorian England: Tennyson's 'The Coming of Arthur' (1971) (1)
TENNYSON'S ‘TO E. FITZGERALD’ (1970) (0)
Poetry (June 1915) (2017) (0)
After strange gods (1994) (0)
Wolsey in the Vanity of Human Wishes (1958) (0)
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 1830 (1972) (0)
Bostonia: 1997-1998, no. 1-4 (1997) (0)
To Alfred Tennyson My Grandson (2014) (0)
A LOUSE ON THE LOCKS OF LITERATURE (1963) (0)
Dylan’s Resources (2021) (0)
Conceptions of Poems and of Letters (1984) (0)
New and Selected Poems (2009) (0)
1. The Pyrenees 1830 (1972) (0)
Growing Up: Review of Death of a Naturalist (1997) (0)
QUOTATIONS IN LETTERS (1962) (0)
True Friendship (2017) (0)
Tennyson, the manuscripts in the minor collections and the indexes for the Tennyson archive (1993) (0)
Tennyson, the manuscripts at the Huntington Library and the Free Library of Philadelphia (1991) (0)
9. The Pursuit of Metaphor (1997) (0)
Tennyson, the manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, Yale University (1990) (0)
Ellmann Re-Joyces (1983) (0)
A Review Essay: Unearthing T. S. Eliot's Buried Lives (1991) (0)
Derogation from 'The Next Time' (2008) (0)
The Eliots' Letters (1989) (0)
TENNYSON'S ’HAIL, BRITON!‘ AND ’TITHON‘: SOME CORRECTIONS (1964) (0)
“PEACE AND WAR” AND “MAUD” (1962) (0)
“Enoch Arden” and “Aylmer’s Field” 1864 (1972) (0)
Over-Emphasis in Paradise Regained (1961) (0)
Book review. E.D., Ed. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum edition. RW Franklin [ed] (1999) (0)
TENNYSON'S ‘RIFLE CLUBS!!!’ (1964) (0)
All in the Gutter (1994) (0)
Denoted by the Character Э (2016) (0)
Beckett's Dying Words@@@Directing Beckett (1995) (0)
Crossing the Bar (2014) (0)
TENNYSON'S “OLD TEUTON” (1973) (0)
Gautier and Eliot's openings (1993) (0)
Mechanism of action of repartitioning agents (1988) (0)
Keats, Byron, and ‘Slippery Blisses’ (1984) (0)
All praise to proper words (2005) (0)
The Grand Style (1978) (0)
Poems and critics;: An anthology of poetry and criticism from Shakespeare to Hardy (1972) (0)
Healing Europe: T. S. Eliot and Beethoven (2019) (0)
The Study of Literature (1969) (0)
Tennyson, the Harvard manuscripts, loose papers (bMS Eng 952.1) (1987) (0)
To Mary Boyle (2014) (0)
Bostonia: 2002-2003, no.1-4 (2002) (0)
THE FAUSTUS BALLAD (1963) (0)
Keats and Blushing (1984) (0)
“‘O WHERE ARE YOU GOING?’”: W. H. AUDEN AND CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1960) (0)
A Note on 'The Hollow Men' and Stevenson's The Ebb-Tide (2001) (0)
Sensuouseness and Seriousness (1984) (0)
Tennyson's Lucretius (1965) (0)
THE VARIANTS OF IN MEMORIAM (1963) (0)
Tennyson, the manuscripts at the University Library, Cambridge (1991) (0)
Contributors (1991) (0)
Christina Rossetti and Commonplace Books (1990) (0)
Small Liberties: The Greatness of Saul Bellow (2002) (0)
1. The Princess 1847 (1972) (0)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (2014) (0)
Leonard Michaels (1933-2003) (2003) (0)
AN ECHO OF TENNYSON IN BROWNING (1967) (0)
1. Poems between 1832 and Hallam’s death (1972) (0)
Renaissance and Restoration drama. Richard McCabe's comprehensive survey offers a literary history of this theme, informed by an investigation of the intellectual background, with particular emphasis on changing concepts of natural law, and consequent reassessments of classical tradition. It examine (2006) (0)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1982) (0)
Poems of 1842 (1968) (0)
Tennyson, the manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Bodleian Library of Oxford University and the Sterling Library of the University of London (1992) (0)
“LOCKSLEY HALL” AND THE “MOÂLLAKAT” (1965) (0)
Vignette 3: Keats and Embarrassment (1996) (0)
NOTES ON SWIFT AND JOHNSON (1960) (0)
Tennyson, the Harvard manuscripts, notebooks (MS Eng 952) (1987) (0)
Bringing awareness (1990) (0)
Pilgrim Misery: Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Part II) (1984) (0)
Tennyson: "Armageddon" into "Timbuctoo" (1966) (0)
The True, The Blushful (1984) (0)
1.Tennyson and his father till 1827 (1972) (0)
The Devil Only Knows (2007) (0)
Frederic Harrison and Bergson (1959) (0)
三月兎の調べ : 詩篇1909-1917 (2002) (0)
THE MACHIAVEL AND THE MOOR (1960) (0)
Metamorphosis in Other Words. (1983) (0)
1. The later poems (1972) (0)
Norman Mailer the Executioner's Song (2008) (0)
Anyone for Tennyson (1988) (0)
Charles Henry Gifford 1913–2003 (2008) (0)
Darwin, Blushing, and Love (1984) (0)
Johnson's ‘Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes’ (1966) (0)
Taste and Distaste (1984) (0)
The Milton Controversy (1978) (0)
Samuel Beckett: Tradition and Innovation@@@Wandering and Home: Beckett's Metaphysical Narrative@@@The Beckett Studies Reader@@@Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction@@@Beckett's Dying Words (1995) (0)
Eliot's Sources and “a cumulative plausibility” (Austin Dobson, John Ford, Kipling, Norman Cameron) (1998) (0)
Tennyson, the manuscripts and proofs at the Tennyson Research Centre (1989) (0)
Tennyson: Three Notes (1964) (0)
Bostonia: v. 61, no. 1-2, 4 (1987) (0)
The Novelist as Critic (2013) (0)
Tennyson, the manuscripts at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Princeton University Library, and the University of Virginia Library (1992) (0)

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Dylan's Visions of Sin