The 2014 Poetry Series presents Christopher Ricks, Co-director of the Editorial Institute and William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. Ricks, who was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 2004, is known both for his critical studies and for his editorial work.

Whereas most of his work as a critic and editor has been devoted to poetry (Milton, Tennyson, Keats, T.S. Eliot, Bob Dylan, The Oxford Book of English Verse and most recently The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse), Sir Christopher has also turned his attention to fiction in his book, Beckett’s Dying Words; in editing Samuel Beckett’s The Expelled / The Calmative / The End / First Love and Henry James’s What Maisie Knew; and in a collection of his essays on the novel from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Henry James, through to Ernest Hemingway, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Christina Stead, Brian Moore, Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul and Ian McEwan.

Co-sponsored by the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers.