Christopher Ricks

In the LRB Archive:

• High Punctuation · 14 May 1992

  • But I digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse by John Lennard

• Umpteens · 22 November 1990

  • Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications edited by Adrian Room
  • Unauthorised Versions: Poems and their Parodies edited by Kenneth Baker
  • The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse edited by Tom Paulin

• Appelfeld 1990 · 8 February 1990

• Diary · 25 January 1990

• Version of Pastoral · 2 April 1987

  • The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections by V.S. Naipaul

• Lyrics and Ironies · 4 December 1986

  • The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony by D.J. Enright
  • Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric by Donald Davie

• Death for Elsie · 7 August 1986

  • Found in the Street by Patricia Highsmith
  • Private Papers by Margaret Forster

• For good or bad · 19 December 1985

  • Easy Pieces by Geoffrey Hartman

• Chronicities · 21 November 1985

  • Gentlemen in England by A.N. Wilson

• Who whom? · 6 June 1985

  • The English Language Today edited by Sidney Greenbaum
  • The English Language by Robert Burchfield
  • A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik
  • Words by John Silverlight
  • Faux Amis and Key Words: A Dictionary-Guide to French Language, Culture and Society through Lookalikes and Confusables by Philip Thody, Howard Evans and Gwilym Rees
  • Puns by Walter Redfern
  • Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism edited by D.J. Enright

• It’s great to change your mind · 7 February 1985

  • Using Biography by William Empson
  • Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson
  • Collected Poems by William Empson

• The Braver Thing · 1 November 1984

  • T.S. Eliot by Peter Ackroyd
  • Recollections Mainly of Artists and Writers by Geoffrey Grigson

• Rectum · 18 October 1984

  • Tough guys don’t dance by Norman Mailer

• Amigos · 2 August 1984

  • The Faber Book of Parodies edited by Simon Brett
  • Lilibet: An Account in Verse of the Early Years of the Queen until the Time of her Accession by Her Majesty

• Masters · 3 May 1984

  • Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age: Vol III. Dean Swift by Irvin Ehrenpreis
  • Swift’s Tory Politics by F.P. Lock
  • Jonathan Swift: Political Writer by J.A. Downie
  • The Character of Swift’s Satire edited by Claude Rawson

• Faber Book of Groans · 1 March 1984

  • Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin

• Dark Tom · 1 December 1983

  • Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley 1933-1980 by Nicholas Mosley
  • Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 by Nicholas Mosley

• Speaking well · 18 August 1983

  • Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones
  • J.B. Yeats: Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others, 1869-1922 edited with a memoir by Joseph Hone

• Short is sweet · 3 February 1983

  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs edited by J.A. Simpson
  • A World of Proverbs by Patricia Houghton

• Errata · 2 December 1982

  • T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage edited by Michael Grant

• Armadillo · 16 September 1982

  • Dissentient Voice: Enlightenment and Christian Dissent by Donald Davie
  • These the Companions by Donald Davie

• Recyclings · 17 June 1982

  • From the Land of Shadows by Clive James

• Women · 20 May 1982

  • My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J.R. Ackerley edited by Francis King

• Playing with terror · 21 January 1982

  • The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

• Citizens · 19 November 1981

  • Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background 1760-1830 by Marilyn Butler

• Donne’s Will to Power · 18 June 1981

  • John Donne: Life, Mind and Art by John Carey

• In theory · 16 April 1981

• Hallo Dad · 2 October 1980

  • Mr Nicholas Sir Henry and Sons Daymare by Thomas Hinde

• A House and its Heads · 7 August 1980

  • Setting the World on Fire by Angus Wilson

• Donald Davie and the English · 22 May 1980

  • Trying to Explain by Donald Davie

• Mailer’s Psychopath · 6 March 1980

  • The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

• A Novel without a Hero · 6 December 1979

  • The Mangan Inheritance by Brian Moore

• The Mouth, the Meal and the Book · 8 November 1979

  • Field Work by Seamus Heaney

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