James Fenton

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James Fenton is a British poet, journalist, and literary critic known for his politically engaged verse and his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry.

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instanceOf human
journalist
librettist
literary critic
playwright
poet
awardReceived Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry
Whitbread Award for Poetry
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
linked to: United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1949-04-25
educatedAt Magdalen College, Oxford
Oxford University
employer The Guardian
The Independent
The New Statesman
linked to: New Statesman

The New York Review of Books
endTime 1999 (Oxford Professor of Poetry)
familyName Fenton
fieldOfWork drama
journalism
literary criticism
opera libretti
poetry
genre lyric poetry
political poetry
givenName James
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society of Literature
movement political poetry
name James Fenton
nationality British
notableFor politically engaged verse
notableWork A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed
All the Wrong Places
Children in Exile
Out of Danger
Terminal Moraine
The Memory of War and Children in Exile
Yellow Tulips
occupation journalist
literary critic
poet
placeOfBirth Lincoln
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
positionHeld Oxford Professor of Poetry
residence United Kingdom
sexOrGender male
spouse Darien Angadi
startTime 1994 (Oxford Professor of Poetry)

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