Sir Christopher Ricks is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, and was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 2004 to 2009. 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, The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse), and he has also written on the novel and edited titles by Beckett and Henry James. He edited Samuel Menashe's New & Selected Poems (Library of America, USA, 2005; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2009).
