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Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks, FBA (born 18 September 1933)〔Nicholas Wroe: "Bringing it all back home" The Guardian, Saturday 29 January 2005 ()〕 is a British (although he lives in the US) literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University (US) and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (England) from 2004 to 2009. He is the immediate past-president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He is known as a champion of Victorian poetry; an enthusiast of Bob Dylan, whose lyrics he has analysed at book length;〔Michael Gray (2006), ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'', p. 571.〕 a trenchant reviewer〔A collection is in ''Reviewery''.〕 of writers he considers pretentious (Marshall McLuhan, Christopher Norris, Geoffrey Hartman, Stanley Fish); and a warm reviewer of those he thinks humane or humorous (F. R. Leavis, W. K. Wimsatt, Christina Stead). Hugh Kenner has praised his 'intent eloquence',〔Hugh Kenner, ''A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers,'' Knopf, New York 1988, p.245〕 and Geoffrey Hill his 'unrivalled critical intelligence'.〔Geoffrey Hill, ''Collected Critical Writings'', OUP, Oxford 2008, p.379〕 W. H. Auden described Ricks as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'.〔"Oxford Book of English Verse", ed. Ricks, OUP 1999〕 John Carey calls him the 'greatest living critic'.〔(John Carey in conversation with Clive James ).〕 ==Life== He was born in Beckenham and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first in English. He served in the Green Howards in the British Army in 1953/4 in Egypt. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford, moving in 1968, after a sabbatical year at Stanford University, to become Professor of English at the University of Bristol. During his time at Bristol he worked on ''Keats and Embarrassment'' (1974), in which he made the then revelatory connection between the letters and the poetry. It was also at Bristol that he first published his still-definitive edition of Tennyson's poetry. In 1975, Ricks moved to the University of Cambridge, where he was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, before leaving for Boston University in 1986. In June 2011 it was announced he would join the professoriate of New College of the Humanities, a private college in London.〔("The professoriate" ), New College of the Humanities, accessed 8 June 2011.〕 He was knighted in the 2009 Birthday Honours. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Ricks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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