The State of the Language: New Observations, Objections, Angers, Bemusements, Hilarities, Perplexities, Revelations, Prognostications, and Warnin

Christopher Ricks is a critic and scholar of Milton, Keats, Tennyson, and T. S. Eliot, and the Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. Leonard Michaels is a novelist and short story writer, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.