Professor of Poetry

Professor of Poetry

Das Amt des Professor of Poetry ist eine der renommiertesten Positionen an der Universität Oxford. Zu den Aufgaben zählen drei öffentliche Lesungen pro Jahr, außerdem bestimmt er den Gewinner des Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize for English Verse und hält die Creweian Oration, ein Rede in Gedenken an die Gönner der Universität. Eingerichtet wurde der Lehrstuhl im Jahr 1708. Seitdem hatten zahlreiche bedeutende englische Dichter und Literaturwissenschaftler das Amt inne.

Es handelt sich um das einzige Professur der Universität, die durch Wahl vergeben wird. Jedermann kann kandidieren, stimmberechtigt sind alle rund 180.000 Oxford-Absolventen. Die Wahl stößt regelmäßig auf großes Medieninteresse.

Bisherige Professoren

  • seit 2004 Christopher Ricks
  • 1999–2004 Paul Muldoon
  • 1994–1999 James Fenton
  • 1989–1994 Seamus Heaney
  • 1984–1989 Peter Levi
  • 1978–1983 Hugh Jones
  • 1973–1978 John Wain
  • 1968–1973 Roy Fuller
  • 1966–1968 Edmund Blunden
  • 1961–1966 Robert Graves
  • 1956–1961 W. H. Auden
  • 1951–1956 C. Day Lewis
  • 1946–1951 Maurice Bowra
  • 1944–1946 nicht besetzt
  • 1938–1943 Adam Fox
  • 1933–1938 George Gordon
  • 1928–1933 Ernest de Sélincourt
  • 1923–1928 Heathcote William Garrod
  • 1920–1923 William Paton Ker
  • 1916–1920 nicht besetzt
  • 1911–1916 Thomas Warren
  • 1906–1911 John William Mackail
  • 1901–1906 A. C. Bradley
  • 1895–1901 William Courthope
  • 1885–1895 Francis Turner Palgrave
  • 1877–1885 John Campbell Shairp
  • 1867–1877 Francis Hastings Doyle
  • 1857–1867 Matthew Arnold
  • 1852–1857 Thomas Legh Claughton
  • 1842–1852 James Garbett
  • 1831–1841 John Keble
  • 1821–1831 Henry Hart Milman
  • 1812–1821 John Josias Conybeare
  • 1802–1812 Edward Copleston
  • 1793–1801 James Hurdis
  • 1783–1793 Robert Holmes
  • 1776–1783 John Randolph
  • 1766–1776 Benjamin Wheeler
  • 1757–1766 Thomas Warton the Younger
  • 1751–1756 William Hawkins
  • 1741–1751 Robert Lowth
  • 1738–1741 John Whitfield
  • 1728–1738 Joseph Spence
  • 1718–1726 Thomas Warton the Elder
  • 1708–1718 Joseph Trapp

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