[New-Poetry] Laureates and Knights

[David Bircumshaw]

Oh come on now Rob: he's got his free bus-pass by now - what more can a man 
or woman want by way of honour?


David Bircumshaw
Website: http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Hamilton" <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Laureates and Knights


> <<
> and, I write in all sincerity, congratulations to the outgoing tenant on 
> his knighthood, the verray parfait Sir Andrew, as well as to the previous 
> Professor of Poetry at Oxford, good Sir Christopher Ricks.
>>>
>
> A caveat, dave -- Ricks deserved his knighthood, Aguecheek didn't.
>
> (Well, maybe not a knighthood, but at least an OBE.
>
> But we're into grade-inflation when it comes to UK honours, now that Sir 
> Armstrad has just been made a Lord..)
>
> Robin
>
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