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Christopher Ricks was elected as the Professor of Poetry for the 2004-2009 term, receiving 214 votes at the Convocation held on 15 May 2004 in the [Divinity Schools]?. He succeeded the poet and academic Paul Muldoon, who completed his five-year term of office at the end of September 2004.
\nThe 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.
\nFurther information may by found on the wikipedia article.
\n","address":"","username":"Dom","opening_hours_text":"","phone":"","node_image_licence":"","content":"[[Christopher Ricks]] was elected as the Professor of Poetry for the 2004-2009 term, receiving 214 votes at the [[Convocation]] held on 15 May 2004 in the [[Divinity Schools]]. He succeeded the poet and academic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Muldoon Paul Muldoon], who completed his five-year term of office at the end of September 2004.\n\nThe 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.\n\nFurther information may by found on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Professor_of_Poetry wikipedia article].","longitude":"","node_image_url":"","summary":"","country":"United Kingdom","version_indpt_url":"http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/Professor_Of_Poetry","website":"","os_x":"","timestamp":"2009-05-27T13:11:00","locales":[],"url":"http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/id=Professor_Of_Poetry;version=5","postcode":"","node_image":"","fax":"","os_y":"","categories":["People","The University"],"city":"Oxford"}