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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.

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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Christopher Ricks

Christopher Ricks

Born: 1933 (age 90)
Bio: Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B.
Known for:
  1. Dylan's Visions of Sin (2004)
  2. The Force of Poetry (1984)
  3. Keats and Embarrassment (1974)
  4. The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987)

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