Christopher Ricks

Sarah B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and co-director of the Editorial Institute, Boston University, Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and formerly King Edward Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. Author and editor of (among others) Milton’s Grand Style (1963), The Poems of  Tennyson (1969), Keats and Embarrassment (1974), The Force of Poetry (1984), The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987), A.E. Housman (1988), T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), Beckett’s Dying Words (1993), Essays in Appreciation (1996), Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by TS Eliot (1996), Reviewery (2002), Allusion to the Poets (2002), and Dylan’s Vision of Sin (2004).