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Christopher Ricks was born on 18 September, 1933 in Beckenham, United Kingdom, is a British literary critic and scholar (born 1933). Discover Christopher Ricks's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Occupation Critic, scholar, professor
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 18 September, 1933
Birthday 18 September
Birthplace Beckenham, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1933

Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks (born 18 September 1933) is a British literary critic and scholar.

1953

He served in the Green Howards in the British Army in 1953/4 in Egypt.

1956

Ricks was educated at King Alfred's School, Wantage (a near-contemporary of the jockey Lester Piggott), then – as the first of his family to attend university – studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first in his B.A. in English in 1956, a B.Litt. in 1958, and M.A. in 1960.

1968

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.

1974

During his time at Bristol he worked on Keats and Embarrassment (1974), in which he made revelatory connections between the letters and the poetry.

It was also at Bristol that he first published his still-definitive edition of Tennyson's poetry.

1975

In 1975, Ricks moved to the University of Cambridge, where in 1982 he became King Edward VII Professor of English Literature in succession to Frank Kermode, before leaving for Boston University in 1986.

2004

He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University (US), co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (UK) from 2004 to 2009.

2008

In 2008, he served as 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; a trenchant reviewer 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 praised his "intent eloquence", and Geoffrey Hill his "unrivalled critical intelligence".

W. H. Auden described Ricks as "exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding".

John Carey calls him the "greatest living critic".

He was born in Beckenham, the younger son of James Bruce Ricks, who worked for the family overcoat manufacturing firm, and Gabrielle (née Roszak), daughter of a furrier of French origin.

2009

He was knighted in the 2009 Birthday Honours.

Ricks has distinguished himself as a vigorous upholder of traditional principles of reading based on practical criticism.

He has opposed the theory-driven hermeneutics of the post-structuralist and postmodernist.

This places him outside the post-New Critical literary theory, to which he prefers the Johnsonian principle.

In an important essay, he contrasts principles derived empirically from a close parsing of texts, a tradition whose great exemplar was Samuel Johnson, to the fashionable mode for philosophical critique that deconstructs the "rhetorical" figures of a text and, in doing so, unwittingly disposes of the values and principles underlying the art of criticism itself.

"Literature", he argues, "is, among other things, principled rhetoric".

The intellectualist bias of professional theorists cannot but make their strenuously philosophical readings of literary texts discontinuous with the subject matter.

Practical criticism is attuned to both the text and the reader's own sensibility, and thus engages in a dialogue between the complex discursive resonances of words in any literary work and the reader's correlative sentiments as they have been informed by a long experience of the self within both the world and literature.

In this subtle negotiation between the value-thick sensibility of the reader and the intertextual resonances of a literary work lies the tactful attunement of all great criticism.

This school of criticism must remain leery of critical practices that come to the text brandishing categorical, schematic assumptions, any panoply of tacitly assumed precepts external to the practical nature of literary creativity.

Otherwise, the risk is one of a theoretical hybris, of a specious detachment that assumes a certain critical superiority to the text and its author.

Those theory-saturated critics who engage with texts that, by their nature, are compact of social and political judgements (and much more), assert covertly a privileged innocence, an innocence denied to the text under scrutiny, whose rhetorical biases, and epistemological fault-lines are relentlessly subjected to ostensible "exposure".

2011

In June 2011 it was announced he would join the professoriate of New College of the Humanities, a private college in London.