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Poets

Image	Name	Join Date	Known as	Known for	Refs
	Sir Christopher Ricks	1953	FBA literary critic Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. Formerly Professor at Cambridge	practical criticism "exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding" W H Auden
	F. T. Prince	1931	WW2 poet	One of the best-known poems of the Second World War "Soldiers Bathing"
	Sir Laurence Whistler	1930	poet and glass engraver	President of the British Guild of Glass Engravers King's Gold Medal for Poetry
	Patrick Shaw-Stewart	1906	WW1 war poet	"Achilles in the Trench" I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die; I ask, and cannot answer, if otherwise wish I.
	Julian Grenfell	1906	WW1 war poet Biography 1976 by Nicholas Mosley (Balliol 1946)	DSO "Into Battle" 1915 The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings; But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.
	Walter Lyon	1905	WW1 war poet	"Easter at Ypres" "I Tracked a Dead Man Down a Trench"
	Hilaire Belloc	1892	Liberal MP for Salford South 1906-10 Catholic literary revival	"Cautionary Tales for Children" The nicest child I ever knew Was Charles Augustus Fortescue. He never lost his cap, or tore His stockings or his pinafore: Balliol made me, Balliol fed me, Whatever I had she gave me again; And the best of Balliol loved and led me, God be with you, Balliol men
	Count Eric Stenbock	1879 DNG	Baltic Swedish poet writing in English	Macabre fiction and poetry "The Song of the Unwept Tear" covered by Marc Almond in Feasting with Panthers Studies of death : romantic tales 1894
	Henry Charles Beeching	1878	Professor of Pastoral Theology KCL 1900-03 Dean of Norwich	"A paradise of English Poetry" 1893 "The Masque of B-ll—l" 1880 First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.
	William Money Hardinge	1872	The 'Balliol Bugger'	gay literature "Clifford Gray: A Romance of Modern Life" 1881
	Andrew Cecil Bradley	1869	Shakespeare scholar Oxford Professor of Poetry	"Shakespearean Tragedy" 1904 I dreamt last night that Shakespeare’s Ghost Sat for a civil service post. The English paper for that year Had several questions on King Lear Which Shakespeare answered very badly Because he hadn’t read his Bradley.
	Andrew Lang	1864	FBA, polymath poet, novelist, literary critic, anthropologist, folklorist	Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) Lang's Fairy Books 1889 -
	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1863	Jesuit priest professor of Classics UCD 1884	though publishing little while alive, has experienced posthumous fame that placed him among leading English poets with his prosody establishing him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature; by 1930 Hopkins's work was seen as one of the most original literary advances of his century sprung rhythm The Wreck of the Deutschland "the most original poet of the Victorian age." (Ricks 1991)
	Algernon Charles Swinburne	1855 (rusticated 1859)	poet-novelist-critic masochist	nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1903 to 1909 Poems and Ballads
	Charles Stuart Calverley (born Blayds)	1849 (expelled 1850)	Fellow, Christ's Cambridge humourist	"Ode to Tobacco" (1862) is on a bronze plaque in Cambridge market square
	Francis Turner Palgrave	1842	anthologist Oxford Professor or Poetry	Golden Treasury
	Matthew Arnold	1840	cultural critic sage writer Oxford Professor of Poetry school inspector	The Scholar Gipsy Dover Beach
	John Campbell Shairp	1839	pastoral poet Professor of Humanity, St Andrews Oxford Professor of Poetry	"The Poetic Interpretation of Nature" 1877
	Arthur Hugh Clough	1836	secretarial assistant to Florence Nightingale	his sister and daughter both became principals of Newnham College, Cambridge The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich
	Robert Southey	1792 DNG	Romantic Poet Poet Laureate	Goldilocks and the Three Bears After Blenheim But what good came of it at last? Quoth little Peterkin. Why that I cannot tell," said he, But 'twas a famous victory.
	Sir Edward Dyer	(1561)	Courtier and Poet Chancellor of the Order of the Garter MP for Somerset 1589-	a candidate in the Shakespearean authorship question (Alden Brooks 1943)