Christopher Ricks
Biographic Data
| ID | 306732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Ricks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Ricks |
| SIGNATURE | RICKS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism: On the Novel and Journalism
Tennyson: A Selected Edition
This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson’s poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson. The collection contains in full all four of Tennyson's long poems: The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Other key works are included from Mariana, The Lady of Shallott, Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses, and Tithonus through Tennyso…
Our Grief
Journal Article Our Grief Get access Christopher Ricks Christopher Ricks The Editorial Institute, Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 93–96, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ays051 Published: 15 January 2013
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of…
Eliot's Sources and “a cumulative plausibility” (Austin Dobson, John Ford, Kipling, Norman Cameron)
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917
In 1922 T.S. Eliot sold his benefactor, John Quinn, a notebook containing about 50 poems, including several sequences written during Eliot's twenties. These poems, many of them previously unpublished, are presented in this book. They are of various kinds and cover a wide range of subjects
Beckett's Dying Words
The State of the Language
Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing, wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. is in rude health, wrote another. Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our today. Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the but in how is understood. In the for…
T. S. Eliot and Prejudice
This is an examination of T.S. Eliot's poetry in which the author considers the works against a background of the social and political problems of prejudice. Eliot was writing at a time of great contradiction in thought; never has the accusation of prejudice been stronger, and yet never has there been so wide an agreement that no understanding of anything is possible without preconceptions. Christopher Ricks is author of Milton's Grand Style, Ten…
Keats and Embarrassment
In this book, the author argues for the importance of embarrassment in human life and for the value of works of art which help us deal with embarrassment by recognizing and refining it. As a poet and a man, John Keats was especially sensitive to, and morally intelligent about, embarrassment. This study demonstrates the particular direction of his insight and moral concern to acknowledge embarrassability and its involvement in important moral conc…
Simile and Cross-reference
This chapter evaluates the Miltonic Simile. It explains that it may first seem that a particular simile has no special point to make — but again and again it shows that it anticipates a later development of the fable. It notes that in order to appreciate many of Milton's similes, it is important to bring the while of the story, not just the immediate moment, to bear on it. It then demonstrates how the eighteenth century debate about similes went …
Milton's Grand Style
Milton's Grand Style has been vigorously attacked in the 20th century and beyond, and this book is an attempt to refute Milton's detractors by showing the delicacy and subtlety which is to be found in the verse of ‘Paradise Lost’
Lies
Sejanus and Dismemberment
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917
In 1922 T.S. Eliot sold his benefactor, John Quinn, a notebook containing about 50 poems, including several sequences written during Eliot's twenties. These poems, many of them previously unpublished, are presented in this book. They are of various kinds and cover a wide range of subjects
Milton's Grand Style
Milton's Grand Style has been vigorously attacked in the 20th century and beyond, and this book is an attempt to refute Milton's detractors by showing the delicacy and subtlety which is to be found in the verse of ‘Paradise Lost’
Lies
Sejanus and Dismemberment
Lies
Simile and Cross-reference
This chapter evaluates the Miltonic Simile. It explains that it may first seem that a particular simile has no special point to make — but again and again it shows that it anticipates a later development of the fable. It notes that in order to appreciate many of Milton's similes, it is important to bring the while of the story, not just the immediate moment, to bear on it. It then demonstrates how the eighteenth century debate about similes went …
Milton's Grand Style
Milton's Grand Style has been vigorously attacked in the 20th century and beyond, and this book is an attempt to refute Milton's detractors by showing the delicacy and subtlety which is to be found in the verse of ‘Paradise Lost’
Keats and Embarrassment
In this book, the author argues for the importance of embarrassment in human life and for the value of works of art which help us deal with embarrassment by recognizing and refining it. As a poet and a man, John Keats was especially sensitive to, and morally intelligent about, embarrassment. This study demonstrates the particular direction of his insight and moral concern to acknowledge embarrassability and its involvement in important moral conc…
T. S. Eliot and Prejudice
This is an examination of T.S. Eliot's poetry in which the author considers the works against a background of the social and political problems of prejudice. Eliot was writing at a time of great contradiction in thought; never has the accusation of prejudice been stronger, and yet never has there been so wide an agreement that no understanding of anything is possible without preconceptions. Christopher Ricks is author of Milton's Grand Style, Ten…
The State of the Language
Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing, wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. is in rude health, wrote another. Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our today. Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the but in how is understood. In the for…
Beckett's Dying Words
Eliot's Sources and “a cumulative plausibility” (Austin Dobson, John Ford, Kipling, Norman Cameron)
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917
In 1922 T.S. Eliot sold his benefactor, John Quinn, a notebook containing about 50 poems, including several sequences written during Eliot's twenties. These poems, many of them previously unpublished, are presented in this book. They are of various kinds and cover a wide range of subjects
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of…
Our Grief
Journal Article Our Grief Get access Christopher Ricks Christopher Ricks The Editorial Institute, Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 93–96, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ays051 Published: 15 January 2013
Tennyson: A Selected Edition
This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson’s poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson. The collection contains in full all four of Tennyson's long poems: The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Other key works are included from Mariana, The Lady of Shallott, Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses, and Tithonus through Tennyso…
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism: On the Novel and Journalism
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