Christopher Ricks teaches at Boston University and is a former president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. From 2004 to 2009 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound.
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Mixing Mystery and Ingenuity
June 9, 2011
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation
edited by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto,
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Undermining Keats
December 17, 2009
Bright Star a film written and directed by Jane Campion
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Keats’s Afterlife
June 11, 2009
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
by Stanley Plumly
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A Successful Defiance
March 20, 2008
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
by Simon Armitage
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The Case of the Crooked Bookman
February 28, 1985
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
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Phew! Oops! Oof!
July 16, 1981
Forms of Talk
by Erving Goffman
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Eliot’s English Usage (Contd.)
July 15, 1976
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Lost Allusions
November 27, 1975
The Realms of Gold
by Margaret Drabble
Cockpit
by Jerzy Kosinski
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Fathers and Children
June 26, 1975
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
The Surface of Earth by Reynolds Price
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Gigantist
April 4, 1974
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
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Prophets
January 24, 1974
Modern Heroism by Roger Sale
D.H. Lawrence by Frank Kermode
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Beckett First and Last
December 14, 1972
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
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Horror Show
April 6, 1972
A Clockwork Orange directed by Stanley Kubrick
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Youth and Asia
March 9, 1972
Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis
The Tiger’s Daughter by Bharati Mukherjee
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Flopsy Bunny
December 16, 1971
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
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Playboy of the Western Word
November 18, 1971
In Bluebeard’s Castle
by George Steiner
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Death of the Family
October 21, 1971
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Convulsive Throes
July 22, 1971
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
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Out of Order
May 20, 1971
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
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At Sea with Ernest Hemingway
October 8, 1970
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
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Female and Other Impersonators
July 23, 1970
Nunquam by Lawrence Durrell
Losing Battles by Eudora Welty
Jeremiah 8:20 by Carol Hill
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
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Man Hunt
April 23, 1970
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
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The Unignorable Real
February 12, 1970
The Collected Stories by Peter Taylor
Pricksongs & Descants by Robert Coover
them by Joyce Carol Oates
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
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Follies
June 5, 1969
The Girls by Henri de Montherlant, translated by Terence Kilmartin
Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby
Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley
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Pale Fire
October 24, 1968
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True Minds
July 11, 1968
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Couples
May 9, 1968
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Not So Grand Guignol
April 11, 1968
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
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Mistaken Identity
March 28, 1968
Victorian Minds
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Games People Play
March 14, 1968
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
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That Old Identity Game
December 21, 1967
Robert Browning and His World: The Private Face by Maisie Ward
The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie
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To Bennett’s Rescue
November 3, 1966
Writer by Trade: A Portrait of Arnold Bennett by Dudley Barker
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In Defense of Milton
June 9, 1966
John Milton by Douglas Bush
The Return of Eden by Northrop Frye
Milton’s Brief Epic by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
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Words & Music
March 31, 1966
The Lyric Impulse by C. Day Lewis
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Domestic Manners
June 17, 1965
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, Introduction by Randall Jarrell
The Fetish and Other Stories by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson
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Dickens, Our Contemporary
March 11, 1965
Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey by Steven Marcus
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The Greatness of Wordsworth
January 28, 1965
Wordsworth’s Poetry, 1787-1814
by Geoffrey H. Hartman
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Errata
January 28, 1965
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A True Poet
January 14, 1965
The Whitsun Weddings
by Philip Larkin
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A Genius, But
November 19, 1964
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
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A Stranded Whale
September 24, 1964
Previous Convictions: Selected Writings of a Decade by Cyril Connolly
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Bee-Keeper
July 30, 1964
The Scarperer by Brendan Behan
Hold Your Hour and Have Another by Brendan Behan
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A Saint at Oxford
July 9, 1964
John Keble by Georgina Battiscombe
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Tennyson’s Early Work
June 11, 1964
The Devil and the Lady and Unpublished Early Poems by Alfred Tennyson, edited by Charles Tennyson