Christopher Ricks 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.
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| Birth: | 1933 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Critic, Professor, Scholar |
Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks was born in Beckenham, England. He is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2009. He is the immediate past-president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
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