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The snubbing of professor Ricks As he savors raves for his T.S. Eliot book, he finds himself odd man out on BU English staff

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19970318
Author:M. R. Montgomery, Globe Staff

Christopher Ricks of Boston University is absolutely the cynosure of English literature this month. The New Yorker said his just-published American edition of T.S. Eliot's early unpublished poems -- "Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917" -- is simply the best book ever written about Eliot. This newspaper, two Sundays ago, referred to Ricks's "critical genius." Reviews of last fall's British edition of "Inventions" ranged from merely ecstatic to unconditionally worshipful.

And two weeks ago, Ricks resigned from the English department at Boston University for reasons he refuses to ...

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