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Oxford Professor of Poetry

Index Oxford Professor of Poetry

The Professor of Poetry is an academic appointment at the University of Oxford. [1]

152 relations: A. C. Bradley, Academy, Adam Fox, Al Alvarez, Alan Brownjohn, All Souls College, Oxford, Anthony Thwaite, Archdeacon of Chichester, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ashurst Gilbert, Beowulf, Bernard O'Donoghue, Birkbeck, University of London, Bishop of Bangor, Bishop of Llandaff, Bishop of London, Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of Rochester, Bishop of St Albans, Boston University, Brasenose College, Oxford, Camden Professor of Ancient History, Cardiff University, Cecil Day-Lewis, Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Cherwell (newspaper), Chichester, Christ Church, Oxford, Christopher Ricks, Convocation, D. M. Thomas, David Constantine, Dean and Chapter of Westminster, Dean of St Paul's, Dean of Winchester, Derek Walcott, Dorothy Wordsworth, Durham Cathedral, Edmund Blunden, Edward Copleston, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Ernest de Sélincourt, Francis Hastings Doyle, Francis Turner Palgrave, Geoffrey Hill, George Stuart Gordon, Graveyard poets, Gresham College, Grevel Lindop, H. W. Garrod, ..., Harvard University, Henry Birkhead, Henry Hart Milman, High church, Inklings, Jackie Kay, Jacobitism, James Fenton, James Garbett, James Hurdis, Jenny Joseph, John Campbell Shairp, John Jones (academic), John Josias Conybeare, John Keble, John Randolph (bishop of London), John Wain, John William Mackail, Jon Stallworthy, Jonty Driver, Joseph Spence (author), Joseph Trapp, Josephine Hart, Keble College, Oxford, Latin, Libby Purves, Lucy Newlyn, Magdalen College, Oxford, Mass media, Matthew Arnold, Maurice Bowra, Merton College, Oxford, Michael Horovitz, Michael Schmidt (poet), Misogyny, Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew, New College, Oxford, Newdigate Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Occasional poetry, Old King Cole, Oriel College, Oxford, Oxford Movement, Patrick Kavanagh, Patrick McGuinness, Paul Muldoon, Peter Levi, Prebendary, Princeton University, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Quain Professor, Queen's University Belfast, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Regius Professor of Divinity, Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford), Regius Professor of History (Oxford), Robert Conquest, Robert Graves, Robert Holmes (priest), Robert Lowth, Roy Fuller, Ruth Padel, Seamus Heaney, Sexual harassment, Simon Armitage, Smear campaign, T. S. Eliot Prize, The Christian Year, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The History of English Poetry, The Independent, The Irish Times, The Movement (literature), The Prebendal School, The Review Show, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Thomas Herbert Warren, Thomas Legh Claughton, Thomas Warton, Thomas Warton the elder, United College, St Andrews, University College London, University College, Oxford, University of Birmingham, University of Glasgow, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Leeds, University of Oxford, University of Reading, University of Sheffield, University of St Andrews, Virgil, W. H. Auden, W. P. Ker, Wadham College, Oxford, William Hawkins (priest), William John Courthope, William Wordsworth, Winchester College. Expand index (102 more) »

A. C. Bradley

Andrew Cecil Bradley, FBA (26 March 1851 – 2 September 1935) was an English literary scholar, best remembered for his work on Shakespeare.

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Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

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Adam Fox

Adam Fox (1883 – 1977), Canon, was the Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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Al Alvarez

Alfred Alvarez (born 5 August 1929) is an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.

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Alan Brownjohn

Alan Charles Brownjohn FRSL (born 28 July 1931) is an English poet and novelist.

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All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College (official name: College of the souls of all the faithful departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Thwaite is an English poet and critic, now widely known as the editor of his friend Philip Larkin's collected poems and letters.

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Archdeacon of Chichester

The post of Archdeacon of Chichester was created in the 12th century, although the Diocese of Sussex was founded by St Wilfrid, the exiled Bishop of York, in AD 681.

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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947) is an Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator.

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Ashurst Gilbert

Ashurst Turner Gilbert (14 May 1786 – 21 February 1870) was an English churchman and academic, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1822 and bishop of Chichester.

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Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.

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Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue FRSL (born 1945) is a contemporary Irish poet and academic.

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Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London (formally, Birkbeck College; informally, Birkbeck), is a public research university located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Bishop of Bangor

The Bishop of Bangor is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor.

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Bishop of Llandaff

The Bishop of Llandaff is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff.

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Bishop of London

The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.

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Bishop of Oxford

The Bishop of Oxford is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury; his seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

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Bishop of Rochester

The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury.

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Bishop of St Albans

The Bishop of St Albans is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of St Albans in the Province of Canterbury.

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Boston University

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College (BNC), officially The King's Hall and College of Brasenose, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Camden Professor of Ancient History

The Camden Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Oxford was established in 1622 by English historian William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, and endowed with the income of the manor of Bexley, becoming the first and oldest chair of history in England.

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Cardiff University

Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

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Cecil Day-Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972.

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Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named for the university's former professor of fine arts.

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Cherwell (newspaper)

Cherwell is a weekly student newspaper published entirely by students of Oxford University.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædēs, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Christopher Ricks

Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks (born 18 September 1933) is a British (although he lives in the US) literary critic and scholar.

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Convocation

A convocation (from the Latin convocare meaning "to call/come together", a translation of the Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose, mostly ecclesiastical or academic.

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D. M. Thomas

Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas (born 27 January 1935), is a British novelist, poet, playwright and translator.

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David Constantine

David John Constantine (born 1944) is a British, Salford born poet, author and translator.

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Dean and Chapter of Westminster

The Dean and Chapter of Westminster are the ecclesiastical governing body of Westminster Abbey, a collegiate church of the Church of England and royal peculiar in Westminster, Greater London.

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Dean of St Paul's

The Dean of St Paul's is a member of, and chairman of the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in London in the Church of England.

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Dean of Winchester

The Dean of Winchester is the head of the Chapter of Winchester Cathedral in the city of Winchester, England, in the Diocese of Winchester.

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 – 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist.

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Durham Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham, commonly known as Durham Cathedral and home of the Shrine of St Cuthbert, is a cathedral in the city of Durham, United Kingdom, the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham.

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Edmund Blunden

Edmund Charles Blunden, CBE, MC (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author and critic.

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Edward Copleston

Edward Copleston (2 February 1776 – 14 August 1849) was an English churchman and academic, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford from 1814 til 1828 and Bishop of Llandaff from 1827.

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Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Ernest de Sélincourt

Ernest de Sélincourt (1870–1943) was a British literary scholar and critic.

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Francis Hastings Doyle

Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, 2nd Baronet (21 August 1810 – 8 June 1888) was a British poet.

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Francis Turner Palgrave

Francis Turner Palgrave (28 September 1824 – 24 October 1897) was a British critic, anthologist and poet.

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Geoffrey Hill

Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University.

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George Stuart Gordon

George Stuart Gordon (1881–1942) was a British literary scholar.

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Graveyard poets

See also: Romantic literature in English The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms" elicited by the presence of the graveyard.

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Gresham College

Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in Central London, England.

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Grevel Lindop

Grevel Lindop (born 1948) is an English poet, academic and literary critic.

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H. W. Garrod

Heathcote William Garrod (21 January 1878 – 25 December 1960) was a British classical scholar and literary scholar.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Birkhead

Henry Birkhead (1617?–1696) was an English academic, lawyer and Latin poet.

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Henry Hart Milman

Henry Hart Milman (10 February 1791 – 24 September 1868) was an English historian and ecclesiastic.

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High church

The term "high church" refers to beliefs and practices of ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology, generally with an emphasis on formality and resistance to "modernisation." Although used in connection with various Christian traditions, the term originated in and has been principally associated with the Anglican/Episcopal tradition, where it describes Anglican churches using a number of ritual practices associated in the popular mind with Roman Catholicism.

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Inklings

The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.

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Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay MBE FRSE (born 9 November 1961) is a Scottish poet and novelist.

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Jacobitism

Jacobitism (Seumasachas, Seacaibíteachas, Séamusachas) was a political movement in Great Britain and Ireland that aimed to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England and Ireland (as James VII in Scotland) and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland, France and Ireland.

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James Fenton

James Martin Fenton FRSL FRSA (born 25 April 1949, Lincoln) is an English poet, journalist and literary critic.

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James Garbett

James Garbett (1802-1879) was a British academic and Anglican cleric who became the Archdeacon of Chichester.

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James Hurdis

James Hurdis (1763–1801) was an English clergyman and poet.

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Jenny Joseph

Jenny Joseph (7 May 1932 – 8 January 2018) was an English poet.

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John Campbell Shairp

John Campbell Shairp (30 July 1819 – 18 September 1885) was a Scottish critic and man of letters.

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John Jones (academic)

Henry John Franklin Jones known as John Jones (May 6, 1924 – February 28, 2016) was an English academic, a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Oxford Universitys 38th Professor of Poetry (1978-1983).

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John Josias Conybeare

John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), the elder brother of William Daniel Conybeare, was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon.

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John Keble

John Keble (25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866) was an English churchman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.

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John Randolph (bishop of London)

John Randolph (6 July 1749 – 28 July 1813) was a British scholar, teacher, and cleric who rose to become Bishop of London.

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John Wain

John Barrington Wain CBE (14 March 1925 – 24 May 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group known as "The Movement".

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John William Mackail

John William Mackail (26 August 1859 – 13 December 1945) was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar.

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Jon Stallworthy

Jon (Howie) Stallworthy (18 January 1935 – 19 November 2014) FBA FRSL was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford.

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Jonty Driver

Charles Jonathan 'Jonty' Driver (born 1939) is a South African anti-apartheid activist, former political prisoner, educationalist, poet and writer.

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Joseph Spence (author)

Joseph Spence (28 April 1699 – 20 August 1768) was a historian, literary scholar and anecdotist, most famous for his collection of anecdotes (published in 1820) that are an invaluable resource for historians of 18th-century English literature (Augustan literature).

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Joseph Trapp

Joseph Trapp (1679–1747) was an English clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer.

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Josephine Hart

Josephine Hart, Lady Saatchi (1 March 1942 – 2 June 2011, Daily Telegraph, 3 June 2011), was an Irish writer, theatrical producer and television presenter who lived in London.

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Keble College, Oxford

Keble College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Libby Purves

Elizabeth Mary "Libby" Purves, OBE (born 2 February 1950) is a British radio presenter, journalist and author.

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Lucy Newlyn

Lucy Newlyn (born 1956) is a poet and academic, who is Emeritus Fellow in English at St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, having retired as professor of English Language and Literature there in 2016.

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Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

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Mass media

The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.

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Maurice Bowra

Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra CH, FBA (8 April 1898 – 4 July 1971) was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit.

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Merton College, Oxford

Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Michael Horovitz

Michael Horovitz (born 4 April 1935) is a British poet, editor, artist and translator.

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Michael Schmidt (poet)

Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican-British poet, author, scholar and publisher.

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Misogyny

Misogyny is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.

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Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew

Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew (31 January 16331 November 1721) was Bishop of Oxford from 1671 to 1674, then Bishop of Durham from 1674 to 1721.

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New College, Oxford

New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Newdigate Prize

Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize, more commonly the Newdigate Prize, is awarded to students of the University of Oxford for the Best Composition in English verse by an undergraduate who has been admitted to Oxford within the previous four years.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Occasional poetry

Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion.

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Old King Cole

"Old King Cole" is a British nursery rhyme first attested in 1708.

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Oriel College, Oxford

Oriel CollegeOxford University Calendar 2005–2006 (2005) p.323 has the corporate designation as "The Provost and Scholars of the House of the Blessed Mary the Virgin in Oxford, commonly called Oriel College, of the Foundation of Edward the Second of famous memory, sometime King of England", p324 has people — Oxford University Press.

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Oxford Movement

The Oxford Movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of England which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.

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Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist.

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Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness (born 1968) is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet.

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet.

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Peter Levi

Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL (16 May 1931 in Ruislip – 1 February 2000 in Frampton-on-Severn) was a poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic.

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Prebendary

tags--> A prebendary is a senior member of clergy, normally supported by the revenues from an estate or parish.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Quain Professor

Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College London, England.

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Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast (informally Queen's or QUB) is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

The Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, until 1916 known as the Rawlinsonian Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, was established by Richard Rawlinson of St John's College, Oxford, in 1795.

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Regius Professor of Divinity

The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

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Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford)

The Regius Professorship of Greek is a professorship at the University of Oxford in England.

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Regius Professor of History (Oxford)

The Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford is a long-established professorial position.

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Robert Conquest

George Robert Acworth Conquest, CMG, OBE, FBA, FAAAS, FRSL, FBIS (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was an English-American historian, propagandist and poet.

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Robert Graves

Robert Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), also known as Robert von Ranke Graves, was an English poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.

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Robert Holmes (priest)

Robert Holmes (November 1748 London, England – 12 November 1805 Oxford, England) was an English churchman and academic, Dean of Winchester and a biblical scholar known for textual studies of the Septuagint.

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Robert Lowth

Robert Lowth (27 November 1710 – 3 November 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.

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Roy Fuller

Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet.

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Ruth Padel

Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS (born 8 May 1946) is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, known for her nature writing and connections with music, science, Greece and conservation.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

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Simon Armitage

Simon Robert Armitage CBE (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist.

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Smear campaign

A smear campaign, also referred to as a smear tactic or simply a smear, is an effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.

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T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prestigious prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year.

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The Christian Year

The Christian Year is a series of poems for all the Sundays and some other feasts of the liturgical year of the Church of England written by John Keble in 1827.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The History of English Poetry

The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1774-1781) by Thomas Warton was a pioneering and influential literary history.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859.

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The Movement (literature)

The Movement was a term coined in 1954 by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest.

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The Prebendal School

The Prebendal School is an independent preparatory school in Chichester, situated adjacent to the Chichester Cathedral precinct.

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The Review Show

The Review Show is a British discussion programme dedicated to the arts which ran, under several titles, from 1994 to 2014.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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Thomas Herbert Warren

Sir Thomas Herbert Warren, KCVO (1853–1930) was an English academic and administrator.

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Thomas Legh Claughton

Thomas Legh Claughton (6 November 1808 – 25 July 1892) was a British academic, poet and clergyman.

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Thomas Warton

Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet.

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Thomas Warton the elder

Thomas Warton, the elder (c. 1688 – 10 September 1745) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster, known as the second professor of poetry at Oxford, a position he owed to Jacobite sympathies.

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United College, St Andrews

The United College of St Salvator and St Leonard (commonly referred to as United College) is one of the two statutory colleges of the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland.

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University College London

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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University College, Oxford

University College (in full The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford,Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008.. colloquially referred to as "Univ"), is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (Oilthigh Ghlaschu; Universitas Glasguensis; abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a Russell Group university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Reading

The University of Reading is a public university located in Reading, Berkshire, England.

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University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.

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W. P. Ker

William Paton Ker, FBA (usually referred to as W. P. Ker; 30 August 1855 – 17 July 1923) was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist.

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Wadham College, Oxford

Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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William Hawkins (priest)

William Hawkins (1722–1801) was an English clergyman, known as a poet and dramatist.

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William John Courthope

William John Courthope, CB, FBA (17 July 1842 – 10 April 1917) was an English writer and historian of poetry, whose father was rector of South Malling, Sussex.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Winchester College

Winchester College is an independent boarding school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Professor_of_Poetry

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