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Christopher Ricks

Christopher Ricks teaches at Boston University in the Core Curriculum and the Editorial Institute 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 recent books include True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound and Decisions and Revisions in T.S. Eliot.

Good Unclean Fun

The Fabliaux

translated from the Old French by Nathaniel E. Dubin, with an introduction by R. Howard Bloch

December 5, 2013 issue

Letter

R. Howard Bloch

Medieval Rap

February 6, 2014 issue

In Support of the Author

Sweet Tooth

by Ian McEwan

December 6, 2012 issue

Philip Larkin: Desired Reading

The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin

edited and with an introduction and commentary by Archie Burnett

June 7, 2012 issue

Mixing Mystery and Ingenuity

The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation

edited by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto,

June 9, 2011 issue

Undermining Keats

Bright Star

a film written and directed by Jane Campion

December 17, 2009 issue

Keats’s Afterlife

Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography

by Stanley Plumly

June 11, 2009 issue

A Successful Defiance

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation

by Simon Armitage

March 20, 2008 issue

The Case of the Crooked Bookman

An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (2d Edition)

by John Carter and Graham Pollard, edited by Nicolas Barker and John Collins

A Sequel to 'An Enquiry': The Forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T.J. Wise Re-examined

by Nicolas Barker and John Collins

February 28, 1985 issue

Phew! Oops! Oof!

Forms of Talk

by Erving Goffman

July 16, 1981 issue

Eliot’s English Usage (Contd.)

July 15, 1976 issue

Lost Allusions

The Realms of Gold

by Margaret Drabble

Cockpit

by Jerzy Kosinski

November 27, 1975 issue

Fathers and Children

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer

The Little Hotel

by Christina Stead

The Surface of Earth

by Reynolds Price

June 26, 1975 issue

Gigantist

The Eye of the Storm

by Patrick White

April 4, 1974 issue

Prophets

Modern Heroism

by Roger Sale

D.H. Lawrence

by Frank Kermode

January 24, 1974 issue

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

December 14, 1972 issue

Horror Show

A Clockwork Orange

directed by Stanley Kubrick

April 6, 1972 issue

Youth and Asia

Girl, 20

by Kingsley Amis

The Tiger's Daughter

by Bharati Mukherjee

March 9, 1972 issue

Flopsy Bunny

Rabbit Redux

by John Updike

December 16, 1971 issue

Playboy of the Western Word

In Bluebeard's Castle

by George Steiner

November 18, 1971 issue

Death of the Family

The Last and the First

by Ivy Compton-Burnett

October 21, 1971 issue