[New-Poetry] As for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry

[Robin Hamilton]

... the argument between the Oxford University Professorship of Poetry and 
the UK laureateship is (as Sam Johnson or was it Swift noted?) the argument 
between a flea and a louse ...

Mind you, the Oxford Lectures have produced at least *some interesting 
things -- Housman's lectures, Graves, and Peter Levi's _The Sound Made By 
Poems_.

            ...  and I am sure there are others.

As for the UK laureateship, jeezuz, jimmy, geeuz a break ...

            :-(

Robin