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Birth Name:

Christopher Ricks

Male

Birth Date:

Mon, Sep 18, 1933

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Beckenham, England, United Kingdom

Age:

90

Zodiac Sign:

Virgo

Astrology Data:

Sun

25°

Vir

4'

About Christopher Ricks

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

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Christopher Ricks: Sun 25 Virgo, Moon 9 Virgo, Mercury 0 Libra, Venus 3 Scorpio, Mars 15 Scorpio, Jupiter 1 Libra, Saturn 10 Aquarius, Uranus 26 Aries, Neptune 10 Virgo, Pluto 24 Cancer, Sun Quincunx Uranus, Sun Conjunct Jupiter, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Mercury Conjunct Jupiter, Sun Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Sun Sextile Pluto, Mercury Semi Square Mars, Venus Semi Sextile Jupiter, Mars Semi Square Jupiter, Saturn Quincunx Neptune, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Neptune Semi Square Pluto

Categories related to Christopher Ricks: Living people, Boston University faculty, Oxford, September 18 births, Alumni of Balliol College, Academics of the University of Bristol, Knights Bachelor, Stanford University faculty, Fellows of the British Academy, Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, Academics of the University of Cambridge, English literary critics, 1933 births, Oxford Professors of Poetry, People from Beckenham, Fellows of Worcester College, King Edward VII Professors of English Literature