Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Christopher Ricks
Standard Name: Ricks, Christopher
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's reputation fell sharply after the turn of the century. Virginia Woolf
wittily remarked in the 1930s: fate has not been kind to Mrs Browning as a writer. Nobody reads her, nobody discusses her... |
| Literary responses | Philip Larkin | This collection was a Poetry Book Society
choice. It received an award from the Arts Council
and brought Larkin the Queen's Medal for Poetry in June 1965. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002. 62 |
| Literary responses | Muriel Spark | The book went into a third reprinting within two months. It was on the short-list for the first Booker Prize. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 356 |
| Publishing | T. S. Eliot | TSE
once wrote to his mother: I don't like reading other people's private correspondence in print, and I do not want other people to read mine. Collini, Stefan. “Buffed-Up Scholar”. London Review of Books, No. 16, pp. 13 -16. |
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