Professor of Poetry

Academic appointment at the University of Oxford

The Professor of Poetry is an academic appointment at the University of Oxford. The chair was created in 1708 by an endowment from the estate of Henry Birkhead.[1] The professorship carries an obligation to deliver an inaugural lecture; give one public lecture each term on a suitable literary subject; offer one additional event each term (which may include poetry readings, workshops, hosted events, etc.); deliver the Creweian Oration at Encaenia every other year; each year, to be one of the judges for the Newdigate Prize, the Jon Stallworthy Prize, the Lord Alfred Douglas Prize and the Chancellor's English Essay Prize; every third year, to help judge the English poem on a sacred subject prize; and generally to encourage the art of poetry in the University.

The professor is appointed to a single four-year term. The Professor of Poetry Committee produces a shortlist of applicants to stand for election by members of the University of Oxford's Convocation. Convocation consists of members of the faculty (Congregation) both current and retired, and former student members of the university who have been admitted to a degree (other than an honorary degree). In 2010, on-line voting was allowed for the first time.[2] The Professor of Poetry receives a stipend (£25,000 per annum as of 2023) which is increased in line with the annual cost-of-living increases for academic and related staff, plus £40 for each Creweian Oration.

Since 1708, 47 persons have been elected to the position including many prominent poets and academics. Alice Oswald, who was Professor of Poetry from 2019 to 2023, was the first woman to hold this post, although not the first woman elected to it, which was Ruth Padel, who resigned after nine days without fulfilling the obligations of the post. She was succeeded in 2023 by A. E. Stallings.

The elections typically attract media attention and involve campaigning by proponents of quite diverse candidates. In the past, both practising poets and academic critics have been chosen.

## 2009 election

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On 16 May 2009, Ruth Padel defeated the Indian poet Arvind Mehrotra to become the first woman elected to the post since its inception in 1708.[3] The Nobel Prize-winning candidate Derek Walcott had withdrawn his candidacy, following what he called a "low and degrading" campaign against him,[4] after The Sunday Times and Cherwell revealed that around 100 Oxford academics had been sent, anonymously, photocopied pages from The Lecherous Professor, a University of Illinois publication on the prevalence of sexual harassment in American universities, describing two such accusations made against Walcott at Harvard University and Boston University.[3][4][5] Walcott's candidacy had been controversial within the university from the beginning, some counselling against on grounds of Walcott's university past, others arguing that his record was immaterial since he would have no contact with students.[citation needed] Newspapers had previously claimed Walcott was the favourite,[3] although Libby Purves suggested that this claim was based on a misunderstanding of the electoral system.[6] Padel criticised the anonymous missives and denied any knowledge of them, though many in the media continued to insinuate her involvement.[5] After her election, two journalists who had previously requested information from Padel regarding voters' opinions revealed that she had cited to them the source of some people's unease about the suitability for appointment of someone with such a university record.[7][8] Padel stated, "I wish he had not pulled out",[9] and resigned on 25 May only nine days after her election.[10]

Letters to British newspapers criticised media handling of the election. An open letter to the Times Literary Supplement[11] complained of unfair media pursuit of Walcott's past, a letter in The Guardian complained of unjust denigration of Padel, claiming she was "justly held in high regard" for her poetry and teaching,[12][13] and a letter to The Times claimed that "Oxford has missed out for the worst of reasons". "One can only speculate why so many male voices were loud in condemning Padel but silent with respect to Walcott. I attended a course taught by Ruth Padel: she was inspirational, involved, enthusiastic and interested in her students. Perhaps it was unwise of her to email journalists but if Walcott's past is 'irrelevant to his suitability to fill the post of Professor of Poetry', so is Padel's 'unwisdom'. That Walcott removed the decision from the electorate was his own choice. Padel should not have been made to pay for his decision to confront neither his accusers nor his past."[14] American commentators attributed the series of events to an assumption on the part of academics and writers that a gender war was behind it all,[15] perceiving a "split across the Atlantic - with the Americans, the ones after all working with Walcott over the decades, taking those claims much more seriously"[16][17]

Some commentators in Britain supported Padel, attributing the smear campaign in the media to misogyny[6] and networking. "The old boys have closed in on her," the poet Jackie Kay stated.[18][19] On Newsnight Review the poet Simon Armitage and poetry writer Josephine Hart expressed regret about Padel's resignation. "Ruth's a good person," Armitage said. "She dipped a toe in the media whirlpool and it dragged her down. I don't think she should have resigned; she would have been good." The election was for a post beginning the first day of Michaelmas Term 2009, hence Padel did not take up office.[20] In the 2010 election she supported Geoffrey Hill.[21]

## 2010 election

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Wikinews has related news:

* Oxford to use online voting for Professor of Poetry election
* Oxford elects poetry professor by email vote

On 7 May 2010, the university, having changed its system of voting to embrace online voters, confirmed that Paula Claire, Geoffrey Hill, Michael Horovitz, Steve Larkin, Chris Mann and seven others had been nominated as candidates for the position.[22]

Paula Claire, the only woman standing, announced her withdrawal on 7 June 2010, citing concerns about the fairness of the election, which were dismissed by the university authorities.[23]

On 18 June, Geoffrey Hill was declared elected.[24][25] He received 1,156 votes; the next highest number, 353, went to Michael Horovitz.[26][27]

## 2015 election

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On 19 June 2015, Simon Armitage was elected as Geoffrey Hill's successor.[28]

## Persons elected to the position (1708–present)

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#  | Portrait[29] | Professor of Poetry  | Took office  | Left office  | Career  | Notes

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1 |  | Joseph Trapp
(1679–1747) | 1708 | 1718  |

* English High Church Anglican clergyman, academic, poet (occasional verse), dramatist, and pamphleteer, described as "fond of reciting the works of Shakespeare in Latin"

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2 | — | Thomas Warton the Elder
(c. 1688–1745) | 1718 | 1726  |

* English clergyman and later schoolmaster of the Winchester School; poet of occasional verse, appointed owing to his Jacobite sympathies

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3 |  | Joseph Spence
(1699–1768) | 1728 | 1738  |

* English historian, literary scholar, anecdotist, and travelling companion; fellow at New College, Oxford, Regius Professor of Modern History, prebendary of Durham Cathedral

4 | — | John Whitfield | 1738 | 1741  |

* Anglican clergyman, tutor of Christ Church, Oxford

5 |  | Robert Lowth
(1710–1787) | 1741 | 1751  |

* Author of an influential textbook on English grammar, poet, and Anglican clergyman; appointed Bishop of Oxford and Bishop of London, dean of the chapel royal and privy counsellor; declined to become Archbishop of Canterbury in 1783 owing to failing health

6 | — | William Hawkins
(1722–1801) | 1751 | 1756  |

* English clergyman, author of sermons, poet and dramatist

7 |  | Thomas Warton the Younger
(1728–1790) | 1757 | 1766  |

* English literary historian, critic, and poet; Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford and Poet Laureate of England (1785–1790); wrote three-volume history of English poetry (1774, 1778, 1781), interested in primitivism and in the ballad revival; his well-known poem The Pleasures of Melancholy is a representative work of the Graveyard poets

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8 | — | Benjamin Wheeler | 1766 | 1776  |

* Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Regius Professor of Divinity and canon of Christ Church, Oxford

9 |  | John Randolph
(1749–1813) | 1776 | 1783  |

* British scholar, teacher, and Anglican clergyman who rose to become Bishop of Oxford (1799–1807), Bishop of Bangor (1807–1809), Bishop of London (1809–1813); Regius Professor of Greek (1782–1783) and Regius Professor of Divinity (1783–1807)

10 | — | Robert Holmes
(1748–1805) | 1783 | 1793  |

* English clergyman, Dean of Winchester, and biblical scholar known for textual studies of the Septuagint

11 |  | James Hurdis
(1763–1801) | 1793 | 1801  |

* English clergyman and a poet, headmaster of Prebendal School, Chichester

12 |  | Edward Copleston
(1776–1849) | 1802 | 1812  |

* English clergyman and academic, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford (1814–1828), Bishop of Llandaff (1827–1849)

13 | — | John Josias Conybeare
(1779–1824) | 1812 | 1821  |

* English clergyman, geologist; appointed Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon (1808–1812), known for translations of Beowulf in English and Latin verse (1814), posthumously published Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (1826)

14 |  | Henry Hart Milman
(1791–1868) | 1821 | 1831  |

* English historian, dramatist, and clergyman, fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford recipient of the Newdigate Prize (1812), English essay prize for Comparative Estimate of Sculpture and Painting (1816); appointed Dean of St Paul's; authored lyrics for Palm Sunday hymn Ride on, ride on, in majesty!

15 |  | John Keble
(1792–1866) | 1831 | 1841  |

* English clergyman and poet, appointed owing to the popularity of The Christian Year (1827), one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement (Anglo-Catholic revival); Keble College, Oxford named in his honour

16 | — | James Garbett
(1802–1879) | 1842 | 1852  |

* British academic and evangelical Anglican clergyman, later Archdeacon of Chichester (1851–1879); Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford; an opponent to the Oxford Movement reforms, Garbett did not have sufficient credentials in poetry and was appointed owing to his anti-Tractarian stance through the efforts of Brasenose principal, Ashurst Turner Gilbert

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17 |  | Thomas Legh Claughton
(1808–1892) | 1852 | 1857  |

* British academic, poet and Anglican clergyman; recipient of the Newdigate Prize (1829); Bishop of Rochester (1867–1877) and the first Bishop of St Albans (1877–1890)

18 |  | Matthew Arnold
(1822–1888) | 1857 | 1867  |

* British poet, school inspector, educator and cultural critic; recipient of Newdigate Prize (1843) for poem Cromwell; Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford; godson of John Keble

19 |  | Francis Hastings Doyle
(1810–1888) | 1867 | 1877  |

* British poet, attorney, and civil servant

20 |  | John Campbell Shairp
(1819–1885) | 1877 | 1885  |

* Scottish critic and scholar; master at Rugby School, humanities professor at University of St Andrews, principal of United College, St Andrews

21 |  | Francis Turner Palgrave
(1824–1897) | 1885 | 1895  |

* British critic and poet.

22 | — | William Courthope
(1824–1917) | 1895 | 1901  |

* English writer and historian of poetry; recipient of the Newdigate Prize (1864) and Chancellors English essay prize (1868)

23 |  | A. C. Bradley
(1851–1935) | 1901 | 1906  |

* English literary scholar, fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, professor at University of Liverpool and University of Glasgow, known for his Shakespearean scholarship, especially Shakespearean Tragedy (1904)

24 |  | John William Mackail
(1859–1945) | 1906 | 1911  |

* Scottish literary scholar, biographer, historian poet, known for scholarship and translations of Virgil; civil servant with Ministry of Education (1884–1919); President of the British Academy (1932–1936)

25 |  | Thomas Herbert Warren
(1853–1930) | 1911 | 1916  |

* English academic and college administrator; fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, President of Magdalen College, Oxford (1885–1928), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1906–1910)

— | — | Vacant | 1916 | 1920 | — | —
26 |  | William Paton Ker
(1855–1923) | 1920 | 1923  |

* Scottish literary scholar and essayist; fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; English literature and history professor, University College of South Wales, Cardiff; Quain Professor, University College London

27 | — | Heathcote William Garrod
(1878-1960) | 1923 | 1928  |

* British classical scholar and literary scholar; fellow of Merton College, Oxford, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University (1929–1930)

28 | — | Ernest de Sélincourt
(1870–1943) | 1928 | 1933  |

* British literary scholar and critic; fellow of University College, Oxford, professor at University of Birmingham; editor of works of William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth

29 | — | George Stuart Gordon
(1881–1942) | 1933 | 1938  |

* British literary scholar, English literature professor at University of Leeds, and Oxford, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor

30 | — | Adam Fox
(1883–1977) | 1938 | 1943  |

* English poet and canon, author of long poem Old King Coel, one of the first members of the "Inklings", Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford, Warden of Radley College, Canon of Westminster Abbey

— | — | Vacant | 1944 | 1946 | — | —
31 | — | Maurice Bowra
(1898–1971) | 1946 | 1951  |

* English classical scholar and academic, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford (1938–1970), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1951–1954)

32 |  | Cecil Day-Lewis
(1904–1972) | 1951 | 1956  |

* Anglo-Irish poet and mystery writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1968–1972)

33 |  | W. H. Auden
(1907–1973) | 1956 | 1961  |

* prolific Anglo-American poet and essayist, regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

34 |  | Robert Graves
(1895–1985) | 1961 | 1966  |

* English poet, novelist, classical scholar and translator; author of over 140 works

35 |  | Edmund Blunden
(1896–1974) | 1966 | 1968  |

* English poet, author and critic

36 | bgcolor="darkblue" | Roy Fuller
(1912–1991) | 1968 | 1973  |

* English poet and novelist

37 | — | John Wain
(1925–1994) | 1973 | 1978  |

* English poet, novelist, critic, freelance newspaper and radio journalist; associated with the literary group "The Movement"; taught at University of Reading, Gresham College, London, and Brasenose College, Oxford

38 | — | John Jones
(1924–2016) | 1978 | 1983  |

* Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, later emeritus; written books on diverse literary topics including Greek tragedy, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Keats, and one novel

39 | bgcolor="darkblue" | Peter Levi
(1931–2000) | 1984 | 1989  |

* English-born poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic

40 |  | Seamus Heaney
(1939–2013) | 1989 | 1994  |

* Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer at Queen's University Belfast and Harvard University, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature (1995) and many other honours

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41 | — | James Fenton
(born 1949) | 1994 | 1999  |

* English poet, journalist and literary critic, recipient of Newdigate Prize for sonnet sequence Our Western Furniture

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42 |  | Paul Muldoon
(born 1951) | 1999 | 2004  |

* Irish poet, author of over 30 collections of poetry, professor at Princeton University, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2003) and the T. S. Eliot Prize (1994)

43 | — | Christopher Ricks
(born 1933) | 2004 | 2009  |

* British literary critic and scholar, professor at Boston University, co-director of the university's Editorial Institute

— |  | Ruth Padel
(born 1946) | — | —  |

* British poet and non-fiction writer; taught Greek at Wadham College, Oxford, Birkbeck, University of London and Princeton University; elected to the chair in May 2009, she would have been the first female poet appointed. Padel resigned nine days after the election, without filling the position, owing to allegations of her role in the scandal surrounding poet Derek Walcott who earlier withdrew from the election.

44 | bgcolor="darkblue" | Geoffrey Hill
(1932–2016) | 2010 | 2015  |

* English poet, English literature and religion professor at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Boston University, co-founder of BU's Editorial Institute

45 |  | Simon Armitage
(born 1963) | 2015 | 2019  |

* English poet, playwright and novelist. Professor of poetry at the University of Sheffield, and the University of Leeds. Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 2019-

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46 |  | Alice Oswald
(born 1966) | 2019 | 2023  |

* Won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012 and the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. First female appointee.

47  |  | A. E. Stallings

(born 1968)

| 2023  |  |

* American poet, translator, and essayist. Won Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize.

## References

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1. ^ "Birkhead, Henry" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
2. ^ Mcgrath, Charles (9 December 2009). "Oxford Institutes a New Election Process for Its Poetry Post". The New York Times.
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4. ^ a b "Bittersweet victory for Ruth Padel". The Independent. London. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
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6. ^ a b Purves, Libby (18 May 2009). "A familiar reek of misogyny and mistrust". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 19 May 2009.
7. ^ Woods, Richard (24 May 2009). "Call for Oxford poet to resign after sex row". The Sunday Times. London. Archived from the original on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
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## Further reading

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* Ricks, Christopher (2009) "Oxford University Professorship of Poetry": English Faculty news; issue 2, pp. 4-6

## External links

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* Oxford Professor of Poetry
* English Faculty site for Prof of Poetry

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Professors of Poetry at the University of Oxford

| 18th century|

* Joseph Trapp (1708–1718)
* Thomas Warton the Elder (1718–1726)
* Joseph Spence (1728–1738)
* John Whitfield (1738–1741)
* Robert Lowth (1741–1751)
* William Hawkins (1751–1756)
* Thomas Warton the Younger (1757–1766)
* Benjamin Wheeler (1766–1776)
* John Randolph (1776–1783)
* Robert Holmes (1783–1793)
* James Hurdis (1793–1801)

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19th century|

* Edward Copleston (1802–1812)
* John Josias Conybeare (1812–1821)
* Henry Hart Milman (1821–1831)
* John Keble (1831–1841)
* James Garbett (1842–1852)
* Thomas Legh Claughton (1852–1857)
* Matthew Arnold (1857–1867)
* Francis Hastings Doyle (1867–1877)
* John Campbell Shairp (1877–1885)
* Francis Turner Palgrave (1885–1895)
* William John Courthope (1895–1901)

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* A. C. Bradley (1901–1906)
* John William Mackail (1906–1911)
* Herbert Warren (1911–1916)
* W. P. Ker (1920–1923)
* H. W. Garrod (1923–1928)
* Ernest de Sélincourt (1928–1933)
* George Stuart Gordon (1933–1938)
* Adam Fox (1938–1943)
* Maurice Bowra (1946–1951)
* Cecil Day-Lewis (1951–1956)
* W. H. Auden (1956–1961)
* Robert Graves (1961–1966)
* Edmund Blunden (1966–1968)
* Roy Fuller (1968–1973)
* John Wain (1973–1978)
* John Jones (1978–1983)
* Peter Levi (1984–1989)
* Seamus Heaney (1989–1994)
* James Fenton (1994–1999)

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* Paul Muldoon (1999–2004)
* Christopher Ricks (2004–2009)
* Geoffrey Hill (2010–2015)
* Simon Armitage (2015–2019)
* Alice Oswald (2019–present)

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