The sound and the sense: John Wallis (the 1650s); Samuel Johnson (the 1750s); William Empson and J.L. Austin (both, the 1950s), a talk by Christopher Ricks

Professor Christopher Ricks 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 (2004-2009). He regularly teaches in the Core Curriculum.