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Christopher Ricks (born 1933) is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the Sarah Warren Professor of Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Insitute at Boston University, and since 2004 Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.

He was born in 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.

He is known as a champion of Victorian era verse, for his enthusiasm for Bob Dylan, and for his opposition to literary theory.

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)
• A.E. Housman: Collected Poems and Selected Prose (1988) editor, and Ricks contributed the introduction and notes
• 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)

• English literary critics
• 1933 births