Oxford Professor of Poetry - Holders of The Position

Holders of The Position

  • 1708–1718 Joseph Trapp
  • 1718–1726 Thomas Warton the Elder
  • 1728–1738 Joseph Spence
  • 1738–1741 John Whitfield
  • 1741–1751 Robert Lowth
  • 1751–1756 William Hawkins
  • 1757–1766 Thomas Warton the Younger
  • 1766–1776 Benjamin Wheeler
  • 1776–1783 John Randolph
  • 1783–1793 Robert Holmes
  • 1793–1801 James Hurdis
  • 1802–1812 Edward Copleston
  • 1812–1821 John Josias Conybeare
  • 1821–1831 Henry Hart Milman
  • 1831–1841 John Keble
  • 1842–1852 James Garbett
  • 1852–1857 Thomas Legh Claughton
  • 1857–1867 Matthew Arnold
  • 1867–1877 Francis Hastings Doyle
  • 1877–1885 John Campbell Shairp
  • 1885–1895 Francis Turner Palgrave
  • 1895–1901 William Courthope
  • 1901–1906 A. C. Bradley
  • 1906–1911 John William Mackail
  • 1911–1916 Thomas Herbert Warren
  • 1916–1920 Vacant
  • 1920–1923 William Paton Ker
  • 1923–1928 Heathcote William Garrod
  • 1928–1933 Ernest de Sélincourt
  • 1933–1938 George Gordon
  • 1938–1943 Adam Fox
  • 1944–1946 Vacant
  • 1946–1951 Maurice Bowra
  • 1951–1956 C. Day-Lewis
  • 1956–1961 W. H. Auden
  • 1961–1966 Robert Graves
  • 1966–1968 Edmund Blunden
  • 1968–1973 Roy Fuller
  • 1973–1978 John Wain
  • 1978–1983 John Jones
  • 1984–1989 Peter Levi
  • 1989–1994 Seamus Heaney
  • 1994–1999 James Fenton
  • 1999–2004 Paul Muldoon
  • 2004–2009 Christopher Ricks
  • 2010- Geoffrey Hill

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    “The doctrine of those who have denied that certainty could be attained at all, has some agreement with my way of proceeding at the first setting out; but they end in being infinitely separated and opposed. For the holders of that doctrine assert simply that nothing can be known; I also assert that not much can be known in nature by the way which is now in use. But then they go on to destroy the authority of the senses and understanding; whereas I proceed to devise helps for the same.”
    —Francis Bacon (1560–1626)

    “The doctrine of those who have denied that certainty could be attained at all, has some agreement with my way of proceeding at the first setting out; but they end in being infinitely separated and opposed. For the holders of that doctrine assert simply that nothing can be known; I also assert that not much can be known in nature by the way which is now in use. But then they go on to destroy the authority of the senses and understanding; whereas I proceed to devise helps for the same.”
    —Francis Bacon (1560–1626)

    “It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.”
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