Literary Birthday – 18 September – Christopher Ricks

Happy Birthday, Christopher Ricks, born on 18 September 1933.

Christopher Ricks Quotes

1. I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse
2. Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven’t noticed. Genius must be a surprise.
3. A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.
4. It is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
5. 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.

Christopher Ricks is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the author of Dylan’s Visions of Sin, Milton’s Grand Style, and Tennyson. He is is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having formerly been professor of English at Bristol and at Cambridge, and the Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

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by Amanda Patterson
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