Peter Forbes's anthology is indeed splendid, containing as it does, two splendid poems by me. But he wrote no poems of his own. Michael Schmidt, so he does but he shouldn't. Terrible stuff, formless, preachy, like very bad prose. But he's a good editor. John Jones was the Oxford Professor of Poetry without writing any poetry except one bawdy limerick. Maurice Bowra, Christopher Ricks and A.C. Bradley were distinguished Oxford Professors of Poetry. I don't think any of them wrote an actual poem.
Patricia Oxley, who has edited Acumen splendidly since the Flood, writes no poetry, though her husband William does.
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