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Christopher Ricks

British literary critic and scholar · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1933 · age 93

Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks 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.

Christopher Ricks is read about 26 times a day, in 5 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 10 August 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature1970

Fellow of the British Academy

Knight Bachelor

About this person

In 2008, he served as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.

Country

United Kingdom

Writers from the United Kingdom 6

Adrian Hodges43.7 of 100 Lucy Beatrice Malleson43.7 of 100 Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet43.7 of 100

Val Gielgud43.7 of 100 Robert Bartlett43.7 of 100 Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby43.7 of 100