• Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks FBA (born 18 September 1933) is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of...
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  • Dylan's Visions of Sin is a 2004 book by Christopher Ricks, a British poetry scholar and literary critic, in which he considers the songs of Bob Dylan...
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  • published in Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830). The critic Christopher Ricks writes that it is among the best poems in the volume, all of which...
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    the reader." Julius' viewpoint has been supported by Harold Bloom, Christopher Ricks, George Steiner, Tom Paulin and James Fenton. In lectures delivered...
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  • "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind", after numerous Ricks in alternate dimensions are murdered, the Trans-Dimensional Council of Ricks accuses Rick C-137...
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  • 2014-05-20. TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE | Kirkus Reviews. Ricks, Christopher (1984-10-18). "Christopher Ricks · Rectum · LRB 18 October 1984". London Review of...
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  • anthologies of his work and in many general poem anthologies, including: Christopher Ricks, ed. (2008). New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. Oxford University...
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  • Christopher Ricks famously published Dylan's Visions of Sin, an in-depth and characteristically Ricksian analysis of the lyrics of Bob Dylan; Ricks gives...
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    Trotter writes, the words of the main character must sound right. Christopher Ricks adds that Pip's frankness induces empathy, dramatics are avoided,...
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    Fiction in 1980, and was a finalist for the 1980 National Book Award. Christopher Ricks describes the novel in the London Review of Books as "a work of genius...
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    presumptuous and was attacked in the following year by Zachary Pearce. Christopher Ricks judges that, as critic, Bentley was both acute and wrong-headed, and...
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    Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is an American actor. He has appeared in many theater productions, films, and on television since the...
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    and notes, but usually include a supplement of more recent poems. Christopher Ricks in 1991 produced a scholarly edition of the original Treasury, along...
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  • The Editorial Institute at Boston University was founded in 2000 by Christopher Ricks and Geoffrey Hill with "the conviction that the textually sound, contextually...
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  • Literary critic Christopher Ricks suggested that "the song transcends the political preoccupations of the time in which it was written". Ricks argued in 2003...
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    "Great Lives: Alfred, Lord Tennyson", broadcast on 4 August 2009 Christopher Ricks (1972). Tennyson. Macmillan, p. 236 Reed, A.W. (2010). Peter Dowling...
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    the panel. Winner Philip Roth Nominees The 2013 prize was judged by Christopher Ricks (Chair), Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks. The...
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  • previous novel The Cement Garden (1978). In the London Review of Books, Christopher Ricks wrote that "McEwan’s tale is as economical as a shudder" and discussed...
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  • American police chief Christopher Ricks (born 1933), British literary critic and scholar Desmond Ricks, American football player Doug Ricks, American politician...
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  • Donoghue, John Hollander, Alfred Kazin, Mary Lefkowitz, Richard Poirier, Christopher Ricks and Roger Shattuck, "a Who's Who of the American literary establishment...
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    Hare: Poems 1909–1917 (Harcourt, 1997) pp.395 ISBN 0-15-100274-6 Christopher Ricks, the editor, cited a letter dated 10 January 1935 to the Times Literary...
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    Literary critic Christopher Ricks published Dylan's Visions of Sin, an appreciation of Dylan's work. Following Dylan's Nobel win, Ricks reflected: "I'd...
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  • Andrew O'Hagan Tom Paulin Nicholas Penny Adam Phillips Hilary Putnam Christopher Ricks Richard Rorty Jacqueline Rose David Runciman Salman Rushdie Lorna...
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    his friend, Arthur Henry Hallam (1811–1833). The literary scholar Christopher Ricks relates the following lines, from canto XCIX, to the end of Tennyson's...
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    finishing Waiting for Godot. Many critics, including Al Alvarez and Christopher Ricks, regard the protagonists in Beckett's novel Mercier and Camier as...
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  • Worcester College, Oxford, where he read English Literature under Christopher Ricks. Hagger worked with British Intelligence in the 1960s and early 1970s...
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  • Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 1, 1898–1922 (1989). She assisted Christopher Ricks with his edition of The Inventions of the March Hare (1996), a volume...
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  • years have done so much to widen." In The New York Review of Books, Christopher Ricks wrote of the "refinement of self-consciousness, usually flawless in...
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    McGann Anne K. Mellor Jean-Luc Nancy Ashton Nichols Leon Plantinga Christopher Ricks Charles Rosen René Wellek Susan J. Wolfson Hamilton, Paul (2016)....
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    Hopkins Andrew Lang Walter Lyon Francis Turner Palgrave F. T. Prince Christopher Ricks William Young Sellar John Campbell Shairp Patrick Shaw-Stewart Robert...
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