Christopher Ricks (born 1933) is a British literary critic and scholar. As of 2005 he is Warren Professor of Humanities at Boston University, and since 2004 Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The chair of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford is an unusual, high-profile academic appointment, now normally held for five years. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

He was born at Beckenham and studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He served in the Green Howards in the British Army in 1953/4 in Egypt. He held positions at the University of Bristol, Worcester College, Oxford and the University of Cambridge before moving to BU. Beckenham is a town in the London Borough of Bromley. ... Full name Balliol College Motto - Named after John de Balliol Previous names - Established 1263 Sister College St Johns College, Cambridge Master Andrew Graham JCR President {{{JCR President}}} MCR President {{{MCR President}}} Location Broad Street Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the... The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Waless Own Yorkshire Regiment) is an infantry regiment of the British Army. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... The University of Bristol is a university in Bristol in the United Kingdom. ... Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

He is known as a champion of Victorian era verse, for his enthusiasm for Bob Dylan, and for his opposition to literary theory. Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era. ... Portrait photograph of Bob Dylan taken by Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is widely regarded as one of Americas greatest popular songwriters. ... Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. ...

Works

• A Dissertation Upon English Typographical Founders and Founderies 1778 by Edward Rowe Mores (1961) editor with Harry Carter
• Milton's Grand Style (1963)
• Poems and Critics (1966) anthology
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1967) editor with Graham Petrie
• Twentieth Century Views: A E. Housman (1968) editor
• Chekhov; A Collection of Critical Essays (1968) editor
• Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton (1968) editor
• English Poetry and Prose 1540-1674 (1970))
• English Drama To 1710 (1971)
• The Brownings Letters and Poetry (1970)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1972) editor
• Tennyson (1972)
• A Collection of Poems By Alfred Tennyson (1972) editor
• Selected Criticism of Matthew Arnold (1972)
• Keats and Embarrassment (1974)
• Geoffrey Hill and the Tongue's Atrocities (1978)
• The State of the Language (1979) editor with Leonard Michaels, later edition 1990
• The Force of Poetry (1984) essays
• The Poems of Tennyson (1987) three volumes, editor
• The Tennyson Archive (from 1987) editor with Aidan Day, 31 volumes
• The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987)
• T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988)
• Selected Poems of James Henry (1990) editor
• The Faber Book of America (1992) editor with William L. Vance
• The Golden Treasury (1991) editor
• To Feel These Things (1993) editor with Leonard Michaels
• Beckett's Dying Words (1995)
• Essays in Appreciation (1996)
• Inventions of the March Hare : Poems, 1909-1917 by T. S. Eliot (1998) editor
• The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999)
• Allusion to the Poets (2002)
• Reviewery (2003) essays
• Dylan's Visions of Sin (2003)
• Decisions And Revisions In T.S. Eliot (2003)