Our Sense of Gratitude

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This collection honors Christopher Ricks the eminent textual editor and literary critic and one of the founders of the Association of Literary Scholars Critics and Writers (ALSCW) an organization thirty-one years young. In the capacious spirit of the ALSCW this festschrift is a core sample of the generations of Ricks's colleagues students and friends many now eminent in their own right writing in a variety of genres. Essays by among others Judith Hawley Hermione Lee Peter McDonald Seamus Perry Sarah Spence Rosanna Warren Susan Wolfson and Michael Wood; memoirs by Phillis Levin Steven Isenberg Cassandra Nelson and Owen Boynton and poems by among others A.E. Stallings Angela Leighton and a remarkable new translation of Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer's Baltics by Ricks's former student Bill Coyle; appreciations by novelist Tim Parks and Jim McCue Ricks's co-editor of the</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Poems of T. S. Eliot</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. Three never-before published talks by his late colleague the poet and critic Geoffrey Hill.</span></p>