Professors of Poetry 1708-2013 Flashcards
(46 cards)
1
Q
1708–1718
A
Joseph Trapp
2
Q
1718–1726
A
Thomas Warton the Elder
3
Q
1728–1738
A
Joseph Spence
4
Q
1738–1741
A
John Whitfield
5
Q
1741–1751
A
Robert Lowth
6
Q
1751–1756
A
William Hawkins
7
Q
1757–1766
A
Thomas Warton the Younger
8
Q
1766–1776
A
Benjamin Wheeler
9
Q
1776–1783
A
John Randolph
10
Q
1783–1793
A
Robert Holmes
11
Q
1793–1801
A
James Hurdis
12
Q
1802–1812
A
Edward Copleston
13
Q
1812–1821
A
John Josias Conybeare
14
Q
1821–1831
A
Henry Hart Milman
15
Q
1831–1841
A
John Keble
16
Q
1842–1852
A
James Garbett
17
Q
1852–1857
A
Thomas Legh Claughton
18
Q
1857–1867
A
Matthew Arnold
19
Q
1867–1877
A
Francis Hastings Doyle
20
Q
1877–1885
A
John Campbell Shairp
21
Q
1885–1895
A
Francis Turner Palgrave
22
Q
1895–1901
A
William Courthope
23
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1901–1906
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A. C. Bradley
24
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1906–1911
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John William Mackail
25
1911–1916
Thomas Herbert Warren
26
1916–1920
Vacant
27
1920–1923
William Paton Ker
28
1923–1928
Heathcote William Garrod
29
1928–1933
Ernest de Sélincourt
30
1933–1938
George Gordon
31
1938–1943
Adam Fox
32
1944–1946
Vacant
33
1946–1951
Maurice Bowra
34
1951–1956
C. Day-Lewis
35
1956–1961
W. H. Auden
36
1961–1966
Robert Graves
37
1966–1968
Edmund Blunden
38
1968–1973
Roy Fuller
39
1973–1978
John Wain
40
1978–1983
John Jones
41
1984–1989
Peter Levi
42
1989–1994
Seamus Heaney
43
1994–1999
James Fenton
44
1999–2004
Paul Muldoon
45
2004–2009
Christopher Ricks
46
-2010
Geoffrey Hill
