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[[Christopher Ricks]] was elected as the latest Professor of Poetry, receiving 214 votes at the [[Convocation]] held on 15 May 2004 in the [[Divinity Schools]]. He will succeed the poet and academic [Paul Muldoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Muldoon], who completes his five-year term of office at the end of September 2004.
[[Christopher Ricks]] was elected as the latest Professor of Poetry, receiving 214 votes at the [[Convocation]] held on 15 May 2004 in the [[Divinity Schools]]. He will succeed the poet and academic [[Paul Muldoon]], who completes his five-year term of office at the end of September 2004.
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Christopher Ricks was elected as the latest Professor of Poetry, receiving 214 votes at the Convocation held on 15 May 2004 in the Divinity Schools. He will succeed the poet and academic Paul Muldoon, who completes his five-year term of office at the end of September 2004.

The duties of the Professor include giving a public lecture each term and the Creweian Oration at the University's honorary degree ceremony every other year, setting the theme for, and judging, the Newdigate Prize and the Chancellor's English Essay Prize, judging the prize for an English poem on a sacred subject, and generally encouraging the art of poetry in the University.


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