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Winners of The Gaisford Prize For Greek Verse

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  • 1857: Joseph Henry Warner (Balliol) for Homeric verse: Milton's Paradise Lost 6.56-98.
  • 1858: Reginald Broughton (Balliol) for comic iambics: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, Act 2 Sc. 4.
  • 1859: George Rankine Luke (Balliol) for hexameter verse: Morte D'Arthur.
  • 1860: Chaloner William Chute (Balliol) for tragic iambic verse: Shakespeare's Richard III, Act 4, Sc. 4.
  • 1861: James Bryce (Trinity) for Theocritean verse: The May Queen: a Greek idyll (from Tennyson).
  • 1862: Robert William Raper (Trinity) for comic iambic verse: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II, Act 4, Sc. 3.
  • 1863: Charles John Pearson for Homeric verse: Paradise Lost 6.824-877.
  • 1864: Evelyn Abbott (Balliol) for tragic iambic verse: Shakespeare's Pericles, Act 5, Sc. 1.
  • 1865: Ernest James Myers (Balliol and Wadham) for a Theocritean idyll: Ægon et Milo, qui ad Olympicum certamen profecti erant, domum redeuntes, inter se loquuntur.
  • 1866: George Nutt (New College) for comic iambics: Henry IV, Part II, Act 1. Sc. 2.
  • 1867: Alexander James Montgomerie Bell (Balliol) for Homeric hexameters: Necryomanteia sive Dante Poeta apud Inferos.
  • 1868: Richard Lewis Nettleship (Balliol) for tragic iambics: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Act 2, Sc. 4.
  • 1869: John Arthur Godley (Balliol) for Theocritean verse: Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Act 4, Sc. 2.
  • 1870: Walter Sumner Gibson (Balliol) for comic iambic verse: Henry IV, Part II, Act 5, Sc. 1.
  • 1871: Edward Byron Nicholson (Trinity, and Bodley's librarian) for heroic hexameters: Ἄστρων νυκτέρων ὁμήγυρις.
  • 1872: Thomas Agar (Christ Church) for tragic iambic verse: Byron's Manfred, Act 1, "The Spirits I have raised..."
  • 1873: Alfred Joshua Butler for Homeric verse: Paradise Lost 4.634-705.
  • 1874: Edward Maclaine Field (Trinity) for comic iambics: Henry IV, Part I, Act 5 Sc. 4.
  • 1875: Thomas Herbert Warren (Balliol and Magdalen) for an idyll: The Ruins of Athens.
  • 1876: Arthur Elam Haigh (Corpus Christi) for tragic iambics: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act 1, Sc. 2.
  • 1877: Sidney Graves Hamilton (Balliol and Hertford) for Homeric hexameters: Paradise Lost 4.223-287.
  • 1878: Alfred Denis Godley (Balliol) for comic iambics: the Hampshire farmer's address in Rejected Addresses.
  • 1879: Alfred Temple Roberts (Magdalen) for idyllic hexameters: Milton's Lycidas 5.132.
  • 1880: Ernest Alfred Upcott (Balliol) for tragic iambics: Paradise Lost 4.32-113.
  • 1881: Christopher Cookson (Corpus Christi) for idyllic hexameter's: Matthew Arnold's Thyrsis.
  • 1882: William Ross Hardie (Balliol) for comic iambics: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 2, Sc. 5
  • 1883: Cecil Henry St Leger Russell (Trinity) for Homeric hexameters: The Death of Zohrab and Rustum.
  • 1884: Harry Hammond House (Corpus Christi) for iambics: Henry IV, Part II, Act 1, Sc. 1.
  • 1885: John Undershell Powell (St. John's) for idyllic hexameters" Shelley's Adonaïs 39-66.
  • 1886: Gilbert Murray (St. John's) for comic iambics: Henry IV, Part II, Act 3, Sc. 2.
  • 1887: Frederick William Hall (Trinity) for Homeric hexameters: Paradise Lost 6.746-785.
  • 1888: Frank Fletcher (Balliol) for tragic iambics: Shelley's Cenci, Act 5, Sc. 4.
  • 1889: René Louis Alphonse Du Pontet (Trinity) for hexameters on Columbus.
  • 1890: William Martin Geldart (Balliol) for comic iambics: Henry V, Act 2, Sc. 3.
  • 1891: William Frederick Lofthouse (Trinity) for idyllic hexameters: 'Country Cousins at the Jubilee' (Et quæ tanta fuit Romam tibi causa vivendi).
  • 1892: Wilfred Ormrod Bailey (Trinity) for tragic iambics: Milton's Samson Agonistes 1570-1660.
  • 1893: Herbert Sidebotham (Balliol) for idyllic hexameters: Lycidas 15-84.
  • 1894: George Stuart Robertson (New College) for comic iambic verse: Henry IV, Part II, Act 2, Sc. 2.
  • 1895: Frank Lloyd Edwards (New College) for tragic iambic verse: Matthew Arnold's Merope.
  • 1896: Edward L. D. Cole (Balliol) for hexameters: Virgil's Aeneid 2.162-249.
  • 1897: W.F. Nicholson (Balliol) for Theocritean hexameters: Thomson's Castle of Indolence 1.2-12.
  • 1898: James Alexander Webster (Magdalen) for iambic verse: Marlowe's Edward II, Act 5, Sc. 1.
  • 1899: Harold Trevor Baker (New College) for comic iambic verse: Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, Act 1, Sc. 4.
  • 1900: Julius Victor Scholderer (Trinity) for hexameters: R.L. Stevenson's Rahéro.
  • 1901: Frederick Lewisohn (Trinity) for Theocritean verse: Milton's Comus 244-330.
  • 1902: Edward William Macleay Grigg (New College) for iambic verse: Richard III, Act 1, Sc. 2.
  • 1903: H.L. Henderson (Christ Church) for comic iambics: Henry IV, Part II, Act 3, Sc. 2.
  • 1904: Cyril Charles Martindale (Pope's Hall ) for hexameters: Virgil's Georgics 4.450-547.
  • 1905: F.A.B. Newman (Univ) for Theocritean hexameters: Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar: Aegloga Sexta.
  • 1906: Leslie Whitaker Hunter (New College) for elegiac verse: Tennyson's Lotos-Eaters.
  • 1907: William Alexander Bain (Christ Church) for tragic iambics: Byron's Marino Faliero, Act 4, Sc. 2.
  • 1908: Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (Balliol) for Theocritean hexameters: Robert Browning's Pippa Passes III. 'Evening: Talk By the Way'.
  • 1909: Algernon E.F. Spencer (Christ Church) for comic iambics: Sheridan's School for Scandal, Act 4, Sc. 1.
  • 1910: Roderick McKenzie (Trinity) for Homeric hexameters: Virgil's Aeneid 2.268-385.
  • 1911: Edgar Lobel (Balliol) for tragic iambics: Racine's Esther 3.1-3.
  • 1912: Thomas Farrant Higham for Theocritean hexameters: George Meredith's Love in the Valley 1-9.
  • 1913: George Dunn (Corpus Christi) for elegiacs: Pope's Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.
  • 1914: Frank Newton Tribe for tragic iambics: Browning's Strafford, Act 5, Sc. 2, lines 268-end.
  • 1915: Reuben Cohen for comic iambics: Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Act 2.
  • 1916: Godfrey Rolles Driver (New College) for A.H. Clough's Amour de Voyage .
  • 1920: John Blackburne Poynton for Browning's Balaustion's Adventure, lines 11-139.
  • 1921: Asher Hyman for hexameters: from Virgil's 4th Georgic, lines 425-527.
  • 1922: Robert Graham Cockrane Levens for Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, Sc. 1.
  • 1923: Cedric A.L. Cliffe for Racine's Athalie, Act 2, Sc. 5.
  • 1924: Edmond Patrick Charles Cotter for Tennyson's Godiva.
  • 1925: Henri Nicolas de Villiers for iambics: Byron's Cain, Act 3.
  • 1927: Ronald Syme (Oriel) for Homeric hexameters: a passage of Morris's Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs.
  • 1928: Denys Lionel Page for Greek tragic iambics: John Masefield's Pompey the Great, Act 2, Sc. 1.
  • 1929: Noël Kilpatrick Hutton for 'The Sad Shepherd', from Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole".
  • 1930: Brian Davidson for a translation of Addison's Cato, 4.4-5.1.
  • 1931: John Save Winfield Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes for comic verse: W.S. Gilbert's The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu.
  • 1932: Archibald David Manisty Ross for 'The Story of Glam', from The Saga of Grettir the Strong.
  • 1933: Thomas Hunter Steen Wyllie for the 'Prologue in Heaven' from Goethe's Faust.
  • 1934: (William) Spencer Barrett (Christ Church) for Congreve's Mourning Bride.
  • 1935: A.T.G. Holmes for Tennyson's Tithonus.
  • 1937: H. Thomson for Sheridan's The Rivals, Act 3, Sc. 1.
  • 1938: Christopher Montague Woodhouse (New College) for Pope's Sappho to Phaon 2.179-end.
  • 1939: Kenneth Dover (Balliol) for lines from Racine's Phèdre, Act 1, Sc. 1, lines 1-133.
  • 1995: No prize awarded (but honourably mentioned: Martin Revermann of Corpus Christi).
  • 1996: Jeremy Grant (Worcester).
  • 1998: No prize awarded (but honourably mentioned: Letizia Palladini of Balliol).
  • 1999: Luke Pitcher (Somerville).
  • 2000: Laura Bender (Magdalen).

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