Christopher Ricks Professions : Literary critic Born : 1933 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Christopher Ricks When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. Christopher Ricks communication community past A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention. Christopher Ricks great-work attention art For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things. Christopher Ricks good-man simplicity may Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise. Christopher Ricks connections genius people The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist. Christopher Ricks fun dirty art Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good. Christopher Ricks rocks genius fields Similar Authors Bliss Perry literary-critic Irving Howe literary-critic Diana Trilling literary-critic Daphne Merkin literary-critic Henry Louis Gates literary-critic Harold Bloom literary-critic All Authors
