We owe the blame for James Henry (1798–1876) to the critic Christopher Ricks (born in 1933). Well, perhaps we owe it to James Henry himself, an eccentric Irish physician and scholar of Virgil’s Latin ...

Christopher Ricks discovered Milton at school and was the first in his family to go to university. He became an academic and wrote early reviews of Heaney and Hill. Now based in Boston and married to ...

In his latest, noted literary critic and Boston University professor Ricks (Dylan's Visions of Sin) makes a thorough, thoughtful examination of the web of influence connecting poets Geoffrey Hill, ...

A dissertation upon English typographical founders and founderies (1778). With a catalogue and specimen of the typefoundry of John James (1782). Edited with an introd. and notes by Harry Carter & ...