Christopher Ricks
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critico letterario britannico
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1933
- Works
- 22
Top works
- Dylan's visions of sin
- Tennyson's methods of composition
- English drama to 1710
- The Faber book of America
- State of the language
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 17
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,538x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,638x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,571x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,871x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
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Quotes
- “When a language creates – as it does – a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
- “Taste, discretion, and decision have, one likes to think, been exercised so as to manifest the variety of an age's poems, the felicitous heterogeneity, the diverting diversity, and the buoyant resistance which a world of poems will always put up even to the best literary historian's summary justice.”
- “[T]o travesty or to calumniate the Victorians is still such a cheap holiday.”
- “Inerrancy about one's own powers is not a mark of the Victorian poets, nor even is a simple prudence about not over-reaching or over-archaizing. The Victorian poetaster over 'weens'.”
- “Great Britain was Victorian for two-thirds of a century. Things changed and counterchanged; even the Queen often proved a surprise, though it may be thought that she was a surprise like a Browning character, by being even more herself than one would ever have anticipated.”
- “Any anthologist of the unparagoned achievement that is English poetry must enjoy the pleasure, privilege, and responsibility of being for a while the master of its ceremonies. Or of being, at any rate, in the rueful Americanism, kinda humble and kinda proud.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christopher
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Beckenham
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Educated at
- Balliol College
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
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- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- date of birth
- 1933-09-18
Sources (1)
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Article · Italiano
Sir Christopher Ricks, FBA, (18 settembre 1933) è un critico letterario e saggista britannico.È "William M. e Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities" alla Boston University e Co-direttore dell'Editorial Institute alla stessa università. Ha ricoperto la carica di "Professor of Poetry" alla Oxford University (2004-2009) e, più recentemente, quella di presidente dell' (ALSCW). È noto come un paladino della poesia vittoriana e un appassionato conoscitore dell'opera di Bob Dylan, del quale ha analizzato i testi in un libro. Hugh Kenner ha lodato la sua "intensa eloquenza", e Geoffrey Hill la sua "ineguagliata intelligenza critica". W.H. Auden ha descritto Ricks come "esattamente il genere di critico che ogni poeta sogna di trovare". John Carey lo definisce il "più grande critico vivente".Ha pubblicato volumi e saggi su John Milton, Alfred Tennyson, John Keats, T.S. Eliot e Samuel Beckett, oltre a varie raccolte di saggi critici. Ha curato l'edizione del The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999). Attualmente sta curando, assieme a Jim McCue, l'edizione critica dell'intera opera poetica di T.S. Eliot.
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