Christopher Ricks
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Christopher Ricks is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His most recent book is Dylan’s Visions of Sin. (March 2008)
From the Review
March 20, 2008: A Successful Defiance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage
February 28, 1985: The Case of the Crooked Bookman
An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (2d Edition) by John Carter, by Graham Pollard, edited by Nicolas Barker, by John Collins
A Sequel to 'An Enquiry': The Forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T.J. Wise Re-examined by Nicolas Barker, by John Collins
July 16, 1981: Phew! Oops! Oof!
Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman
July 15, 1976: Eliot's English Usage (Contd.) (letter)
November 27, 1975: Lost Allusions
The Realms of Gold by Margaret Drabble
Cockpit by Jerzy Kosinski
June 26, 1975: Fathers and Children
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
The Surface of Earth by Reynolds Price
April 4, 1974: Gigantist
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
January 24, 1974: Prophets
Modern Heroism by Roger Sale
D.H. Lawrence by Frank Kermode
December 14, 1972: Beckett First and Last
The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett
More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
The Shape of Chaos: An Interpretation of the Art of Samuel Beckett by David H. Hesla
April 6, 1972: Horror Show
A Clockwork Orange directed by Stanley Kubrick
March 9, 1972: Youth and Asia
Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis
The Tiger's Daughter by Bharati Mukherjee
December 16, 1971: Flopsy Bunny
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
November 18, 1971: Playboy of the Western Word
In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner
October 21, 1971: Death of the Family
The Last and the First by Ivy Compton-Burnett
July 22, 1971: Convulsive Throes
The Live Goat by Cecil Dawkins
On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover & Other Stories by Tess Slesinger
Eisenhower, My Eisenhower by Jerome Charyn
Bad News by Paul Spike
May 20, 1971: Out of Order
Beyond the Tragic Vision by Morse Peckham
Man's Rage for Chaos by Morse Peckham
Art and Pornography by Morse Peckham
Victorian Revolutionaries by Morse Peckham
The Triumph of Romanticism by Morse Peckham
October 8, 1970: At Sea with Ernest Hemingway
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
July 23, 1970: Female and Other Impersonators
Nunquam by Lawrence Durrell
Losing Battles by Eudora Welty
Jeremiah 8:20 by Carol Hill
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
April 23, 1970: Man Hunt
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
The Heron by Giorgio Bassani, translated by William Weaver
Deliverance by James Dickey
Niagara by Michel Butor, translated by Elinor S. Miller
February 12, 1970: The Unignorable Real
The Collected Stories by Peter Taylor
Pricksongs & Descants by Robert Coover
them by Joyce Carol Oates
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
June 5, 1969: Follies
The Girls by Henri de Montherlant, translated by Terence Kilmartin
Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby
Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley
December 19, 1968: Extreme Instances
The Public Image by Muriel Spark
Collected Stories: 1 by Muriel Spark
Collected Poems: 1 by Muriel Spark
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
A Muriel Spark Trio: The Comforters, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Bachelors by Muriel Spark
The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories by Muriel Spark
Voices at Play by Muriel Spark
October 24, 1968: Pale Fire
Carlyle and the Idea of the Modern by Albert J. LaValley
Sartor Called Resartus by G.B. Tennyson
July 11, 1968: True Minds (letter)
May 9, 1968: Couples (letter)
April 11, 1968: Not So Grand Guignol
A Change of Skin by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Sam Hileman
The Flood by J.M.G. LeClézio, translated by Peter Green
Terror on the Mountain by Charles F. Ramuz, translated by Milton Stansbury
March 28, 1968: Mistaken Identity
Victorian Minds by Gertrude Himmelfarb
March 14, 1968: Games People Play
The Future as Nightmare: H. G. Wells and the Anti-Utopians by Mark R. Hillegas
A Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells, with Introduction by Mark R. Hillegas
Experiment in Autobiography by H.G. Wells
December 21, 1967: That Old Identity Game
Robert Browning and His World: The Private Face by Maisie Ward
The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie
November 3, 1966: To Bennett's Rescue
Writer by Trade: A Portrait of Arnold Bennett by Dudley Barker
June 9, 1966: In Defense of Milton
John Milton by Douglas Bush
The Return of Eden by Northrop Frye
Milton's Brief Epic by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
March 31, 1966: Words & Music
The Lyric Impulse by C. Day Lewis
June 17, 1965: Domestic Manners
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, Introduction by Randall Jarrell
The Fetish and Other Stories by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson
March 11, 1965: Dickens, Our Contemporary
Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey by Steven Marcus
January 28, 1965: The Greatness of Wordsworth
Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 by Geoffrey H. Hartman
January 28, 1965: Errata (letter)
January 14, 1965: A True Poet
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
November 19, 1964: A Genius, But…
Frieda Lawrence: The Memoirs and Correspondence edited by E.W. Tedlock Jr.
The Paintings of D. H. Lawrence edited by Mervyn Levy, with essays by Harry T. Moore, by Jack Lindsay, by Herbert Read
The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, edited by F. Warren Roberts
September 24, 1964: A Stranded Whale
Previous Convictions: Selected Writings of a Decade by Cyril Connolly
July 30, 1964: Bee-Keeper
The Scarperer by Brendan Behan
Hold Your Hour and Have Another by Brendan Behan
July 9, 1964: A Saint at Oxford
John Keble by Georgina Battiscombe
June 11, 1964: Tennyson's Early Work
The Devil and the Lady and Unpublished Early Poems by Alfred Tennyson, edited by Charles Tennyson
Books by Christopher Ricks
Essays in Appreciation (1996)
Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures, 1990 (1993)
The Faber Book of America (1992)
Tennyson (1989)
T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988)
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987)
The Force of Poetry (1984)
Geoffrey Hill and "The Tongue's Atrocities": The W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture Delivered at the College on February 15th, 1978 (1978)
Keats and Embarrassment (1974)
English Drama to 1710 (1971)
English Poetry and Prose, 1540-1674 (1970)
Milton's Grand Style (1963)