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Christopher Ricks, author of Dylan's Visions of Sin, is a Warren Professor of the Humanities, co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and a member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He has just begun his five-year appointment as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Mr. Ricks is the author of numerous books about writers and poets including: Milton's Grand Style (1963), Tennyson (second edition, 1998), Keats and Embarrassment (1974), The Force of Poetry (1984), T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), Beckett's Dying Words (1993), Essays in Appreciation (1996), Allusion to the Poets (2002), and Reviewery (2003). He also edited The Oxford Book of English Verse and The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse.