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Oxford Professors of Poetry

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Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
Robert Graves
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
Matthew Arnold
British poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)
Cecil Day-Lewis
Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)
Thomas Warton
English literary historian, critic, poet (1728-1790)
Edmund Blunden
British poet, author and critic (1896–1974)
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1963)
John Keble
British churchman and poet (1792–1866)
John Wain
English writer (1925–1994)
Geoffrey Hill
English poet (1932–2016)
Paul Muldoon
Irish poet (born 1951)
Maurice Bowra
English classical scholar, literary critic and academic (1898–1971)
Robert Lowth
Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Oxford; Bishop of London (1710-1787)
A. C. Bradley
British literary scholar (1851–1935)
Francis Turner Palgrave
English poet and critic (1824–1897)
Alice Oswald
British poet
James Fenton
British poet; (born 1949)
Henry Hart Milman
English historian and churchman (1791–1868)
Peter Levi
writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest (1931–2000)
Roy Fuller
British writer (1912–1991)
Joseph Spence
British historian and landscape architect
Francis Hastings Doyle
British academic and poet
Adam Fox
British poet and academic (1883–1977)
John William Mackail
Scottish academic and reformer (1859–1945)
Christopher Ricks
British literary critic and scholar (born 1933)
William Paton Ker
Scottish literary scholar and essayist (1855-1923)
William John Courthope
British writer (1842-1917)
Heathcote William Garrod
(1878-1960) British academic
John Campbell Shairp
British writer (1819–1885)
Ernest de Sélincourt
British academic (1870-1943)