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Oxford Professors of Poetry
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Dates
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Poet
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1708 |
Joseph Trapp |
1718 |
Thomas Warton (the elder) |
1728 |
Joseph Spence |
1738 |
John Whitfield |
1741 |
Robert Lowth |
1751 |
William Hawkins |
1757 |
Thomas Warton (the younger) |
1766 |
Benjamin Wheller |
1776 |
John Randolph |
1783 |
Robert Holmes |
1793 |
James Hurdis |
1802 |
Edward Copleston |
1812 |
John Josius Conybeare |
1821 |
Henry Hart Milman |
1831 |
John Keble |
1842 |
James Garbet |
1852 |
Thomas Legh Claughton |
1857 |
Matthew Arnold |
1867 |
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle |
1877 |
John Campbell Shairp |
1885 |
Francis Turner Palgrave |
1895 |
William John Courthope |
1901 |
Andrew Cecil Bradley |
1906 |
John William Mackail |
1911 |
Thomas Herbert Warren |
1916 |
Suspended due to war |
1920 |
William Paton Ker |
1923 |
Heathcote William Garrod |
1928 |
Ernest de Selincourt |
1933 |
George Stuart Gordon |
1938 |
Adam Fox |
1943 |
Suspended due to war |
1946 |
Maurice Bowra |
1951 |
Cecil Day Lewis |
1956 |
Wystan Hugh Auden |
1961 |
Robert von Ranke Graves |
1966 |
Edmund Charles Blunden |
1968 |
Roy Fuller |
1974 |
John Wain |
1979 |
Henry John Franklin Jones |
1984 |
Peter Levi |
1989 |
Seamus Heaney |
1994 |
James Fenton |
1999 |
Paul Muldoon |
2004 |
Christopher Ricks |
2009 |
Ruth Padel (resigned) |
2010 |
Geoffrey Hill |
2015 |
Simon Armitage |
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