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Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize is awarded to students of the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 for Best Composition in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 verse by an undergraduate who has been admitted to Oxford within the previous four years. It was founded by Sir Roger Newdigate
Roger Newdigate

Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet was an England politician and collector of antiquities.He was born in Arbury, Warwickshire, Warwickshire, the son of Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd Baronet and inherited the title 5th Baronet and the estates of Arbury and of Harefield in Middlesex on the early death of his brother in 1734....
, Bt (1719-1806) in the 18th century. The winning poem is read at Encaenia
Encaenia

Encaenia is an academic ceremony usually performed at colleges or universities. It generally occurs some time near the annual ceremony for the general conference of degrees to students....
.

Instructions are published as follows: "The length of the poem is not to exceed 300 lines. The metre is not restricted to heroic couplets, but dramatic form of composition is not allowed."

Notable winners have included Robert Stephen Hawker
Robert Stephen Hawker

Robert Stephen Hawker , often known as Stephen Hawker, was a Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, and reputed eccentricity ....
, John Ruskin
John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
, Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold was an England poet, and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold , literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator....
, Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon

Robert Laurence Binyon was an England poet, dramatist, and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....
, Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
, John Buchan, John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of homosexuality which included for him pederasty as well as gay relationships, and which he would refer to as l'amour de l'impossible....
, James Fenton
James Fenton

James Fenton has been, at various times, a journalist, poet, literary criticism, and professor....
 and Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is an England novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty....
.

The parallel award given by Cambridge university is the Chancellor's Gold Medal
Chancellor's Gold Medal

The Chancellor's Gold Medal is a prestigious annual award at Cambridge University for poetry, paralleling Oxford University's Newdigate prize. It was first presented by Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh during his time as List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge....
.








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Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize is awarded to students of the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 for Best Composition in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 verse by an undergraduate who has been admitted to Oxford within the previous four years. It was founded by Sir Roger Newdigate
Roger Newdigate

Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet was an England politician and collector of antiquities.He was born in Arbury, Warwickshire, Warwickshire, the son of Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd Baronet and inherited the title 5th Baronet and the estates of Arbury and of Harefield in Middlesex on the early death of his brother in 1734....
, Bt (1719-1806) in the 18th century. The winning poem is read at Encaenia
Encaenia

Encaenia is an academic ceremony usually performed at colleges or universities. It generally occurs some time near the annual ceremony for the general conference of degrees to students....
.

Instructions are published as follows: "The length of the poem is not to exceed 300 lines. The metre is not restricted to heroic couplets, but dramatic form of composition is not allowed."

Notable winners have included Robert Stephen Hawker
Robert Stephen Hawker

Robert Stephen Hawker , often known as Stephen Hawker, was a Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, and reputed eccentricity ....
, John Ruskin
John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
, Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold was an England poet, and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold , literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator....
, Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon

Robert Laurence Binyon was an England poet, dramatist, and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....
, Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
, John Buchan, John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of homosexuality which included for him pederasty as well as gay relationships, and which he would refer to as l'amour de l'impossible....
, James Fenton
James Fenton

James Fenton has been, at various times, a journalist, poet, literary criticism, and professor....
 and Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is an England novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty....
.

The parallel award given by Cambridge university is the Chancellor's Gold Medal
Chancellor's Gold Medal

The Chancellor's Gold Medal is a prestigious annual award at Cambridge University for poetry, paralleling Oxford University's Newdigate prize. It was first presented by Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh during his time as List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge....
.

Past titles and winners

Where known, the title of the winning poem is given, followed by the name of the author:

Notable 19th Century winners

  • 1829. Robert Stephen Hawker
    Robert Stephen Hawker

    Robert Stephen Hawker , often known as Stephen Hawker, was a Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, and reputed eccentricity ....
  • 1839. John Ruskin
    John Ruskin

    John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
  • 1843. Cromwell. Matthew Arnold
    Matthew Arnold

    Matthew Arnold was an England poet, and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold , literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator....
    * 1860. The Escorial. John Addington Symonds
    John Addington Symonds

    John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of homosexuality which included for him pederasty as well as gay relationships, and which he would refer to as l'amour de l'impossible....
  • 1878. Ravenna. Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
  • 1888. Arthur Waugh
    Arthur Waugh

    Arthur Waugh was an England author, literary critic, and publisher....
  • 1898. John Buchan
  • 1890. Persephone. Laurence Binyon
    Laurence Binyon

    Robert Laurence Binyon was an England poet, dramatist, and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....


20th Century

  • 1900. Robespierre. Arthur Carré
  • 1901. Galileo. William Garrod
  • 1902. Minos. Ernest Wodehouse
  • 1903. not awarded
  • 1904. Delphi. George Bell
    George Bell (bishop)

    George Kennedy Allen Bell was an Anglican church theologian, Dean of Canterbury , Bishop of Chichester, member of the House of Lords and a pioneer of the Ecumenical Movement....
  • 1905. Garibaldi. Arthur E. E. Reade
  • 1906. The Death of Shelley. Geoffrey Scott
    Geoffrey Scott

    Geoffrey Scott was an English scholar and poet, known as a historian of architecture. His biography of Isabelle de Charri?re entitled The Portrait of Zelide won the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize....
  • 1907. Camoens. Robert Cruttwell
  • 1908. Holyrood. Julian Huxley
    Julian Huxley

    Sir Julian Sorell Huxley Fellow of the Royal Society was an English evolutionary biologist, Humanist and Internationalism . He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis....
  • 1909. Michelangelo. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin
  • 1910. Atlantis. Charles Bewley
    Charles Bewley

    Charles Henry Bewley was raised in a famous Dublin Quaker business family, embraced Irish Republicanism. He was the Irish Diplomacy to Berlin who reportedly thwarted efforts to obtain Visa for Jews wanting to leave Nazi Germany in the 1930s and to move to the safety of the Irish Free State....
  • 1911. Achilles. Roger Heath
  • 1912. Richard I Before Jerusalem. William Greene
    William Greene

    William Greene may refer to:* William Batchelder Greene, American individualist anarchist and banking reformer* William S. Greene, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts...
  • 1913. Oxford. Maurice Roy Ridley
  • 1914. The Burial of Sophocles. Robert Sterling
    Robert Sterling

    Robert Sterling, born William Sterling Hart , was an American film and television actor....
  • 1915. not awarded
  • 1916. Venice. Russell Green
  • 1917. suspended due to war
  • 1918. suspended due to war
  • 1919. France. P. H. B. Lyon
  • 1920. The Lake of Garda. George Johnstone
    George Johnstone

    George Johnstone was a British naval officer and member of Parliament.George Johnstone was the fourth son of Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet of Westerhall, Dumfries, and his wife Barbara Murray, the oldest sister of the literary patron Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank....
  • 1921. Cervantes. James Laver
    James Laver

    James Laver CBE FRSA was an author, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959....
  • 1922. Mount Everest. James Reid
    James Reid

    James Reid is the name of:*James Randolph Reid , American soldier and Continental Congressman*James Reid , member for British Columbia in the Canadian House of Commons, later a member of the Senate of Canada...
  • 1923. London. Christopher Scaife
  • 1924. Michelangelo. Franklin McDuffee
  • 1925. Byron. Edgar McInnes
  • 1926. not awarded
  • 1927. Julia, Daughter of Claudius. Gertrude Trevelyan
  • 1928. The Mermaid Tavern. Angela Cave
  • 1929. The Sands of Egypt. Phyllis Hartnoll
    Phyllis Hartnoll

    Phyllis Hartnoll was a British poet, author and editor.Hartnoll studied at the University of Oxford, where she won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1929....
  • 1930. Daedalus. Josephine Fielding
  • 1931. Vanity Fair. Michael Balkwill
  • 1932. Sir Walter Scott. Richard Hennings
  • 1933. Ovid among the Goths. Philip Hubbard (See P. M. Hubbard
    P. M. Hubbard

    Philip Maitland Hubbard was a British writer. He was known principally for his crime and suspense stories although he wrote in other forms and genres as well, for example contributing short stories and poetry to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and articles, verse and parliamentary reports for Punch....
    )
  • 1934. Fire. Edward Lowbury
    Edward Lowbury

    Edward Joseph Lister Lowbury was an English physician, bacteriologist and pathologist, and also a published poet, who wrote criticism and biography....
  • 1935. Canterbury. Allan Plowman
  • 1936. Rain. David Winser
  • 1937. The Man in the Moon. Margaret Stanley-Wrench
  • 1938. Milton Blind. Michael Thwaites
    Michael Thwaites

    Michael Rayner Thwaites, Order of Australia was an Australian academic, poet, intelligence officer, and activist for Moral Rearmament....
  • 1939. Dr Newman Revisits Oxford. Kenneth Kitchin
  • 1940 - 46. suspended due to war
  • 1947. Nemesis. Merton Atkins
  • 1948. Caesarion. Peter Way
  • 1949. The Black Death. Peter Weitzman
  • 1950. Eldorado. John Bayley
    John Bayley

    Professor John Bayley Order of British Empire, British Academy, Royal Society of Literature is a United Kingdom literary critic and writer....
  • 1951. The Queen of Sheba. Michael Hornyansky
  • 1952. Exile. Donald Hall
    Donald Hall

    Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2004....
     (published in OP 1953)
  • 1953. not awarded
  • 1954. not awarded
  • 1955. Elegy for a Dead Clown. Edwin Evans
    Edwin Evans

    Edwin Evans was an Australian cricketer who played in 6 Test cricket between 1881 and 1886.Born in Emu Plains, New South Wales and educated at Newington College , Evans was an off spinner with an ability to consistently land the ball wherever he wanted to and had some success in Australian first-class cricket....
  • 1956. The Deserted Altar. David Posner
  • 1957. Leviathan. Robert Maxwell
  • 1958. The Earthly Paradise. Jon Stallworthy
    Jon Stallworthy

    Jon Stallworthy British Academy Royal Society of Literature is Professor of English literature at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and Acting President of Wolfson College, Oxford, a poet, and literary critic....
  • 1959. not awarded
  • 1960. A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel. John Fuller
    John Fuller (poet)

    John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford....
  • 1961. not awarded
  • 1962. May Morning. Stanley Johnson
    Stanley Johnson

    Stanley Patrick Johnson is a United Kingdom politician and author, and a noted expert on environmental and population issues. He was a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1984 and is former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission, and his son, Boris Johnson, is the current Mayor of London....
  • 1963. not awarded
  • 1964. Disease. James Paterson
  • 1965. Fear. Peter Jay
  • 1966. not awarded
  • 1967. not awarded
  • 1968. The Opening of Japan. James Fenton
    James Fenton

    James Fenton has been, at various times, a journalist, poet, literary criticism, and professor....
  • 1969. not awarded
  • 1970. Instructions to a Painter. Charles Radice
  • 1971. not awarded
  • 1972. The Ancestral Face. Neil Rhodes
  • 1973. The Wife's Tale. Christopher Mann
    Christopher Mann

    Christopher Mann is a United Kingdom composer and began his career by contributing to independent films such as Hard Grit. He founded an audio production company in 1997 called Mann Music specialising in music and sound for video games and other media....
  • 1974. Death of a Poet. Alan Hollinghurst
    Alan Hollinghurst

    Alan Hollinghurst is an England novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty....
  • 1975. The Tides. Andrew Motion
    Andrew Motion

    Andrew Motion, Royal Society of Literature, is an England poet, novelist and biographer, who is the current Poet Laureate in the United Kingdom....
  • 1976. Hostages. David Winzar
  • 1977. The Fool. Michael King
    Michael King

    Michael King, Order of the British Empire was a widely respected New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer....
  • 1978. not awarded
  • 1979. not awarded
  • 1980. Inflation. Simon Higginson
  • 1981. not awarded
  • 1982. Souvenirs. Gordon Wattles
  • 1983. Triumphs. Peter McDonald (published in OP I.2)
  • 1984. Fear. James Leader
  • 1985. Magic. Robert Twigger
    Robert Twigger

    Robert Twigger is a British people writer and novelist....
  • 1986. An Epithalamion. William Morris
  • 1987. Memoirs of Tiresias. Bruce Gibson and Michael Suarez (joint winners)
  • 1988. Elegy. Mark Wormald
  • 1989. The House. Jane Griffiths
    Jane Griffiths (poet)

    Jane Griffiths is a British poet.Griffiths was born in Exeter, England, and brought up in the Netherlands. She studied English at Oxford University, and is a past winner of the Newdigate prize for poetry....
  • 1990. Mapping. Roderick Clayton
  • 1991. not awarded
  • 1992. Green Thought. Fiona Sampson
    Fiona Sampson

    Fiona Sampson is an award-winning British poet....
  • 1993. The Landing. Caron Röhsler
  • 1994. Making Sense. James Merino
  • 1995. Judith with the Head of Holofernes. Antony Dunn
    Antony Dunn

    Antony Dunn is an England poet and dramatist. He was born in London in 1973. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1995 and received a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2000....
     (published in OP IX.1)
  • 1996. not awarded
  • 1997. not awarded
  • 1998. not awarded
  • 1999. not awarded
  • 2000. A Book of Hours.


21st Century

  • 2005. Lyons. Arina Patrikova
  • 2006. BEE-POEMS. Paul Thomas Abbott
    Paul Thomas Abbott

    Paul Thomas Abbott is an emerging British poet educated at St Anne's College, Oxford, Oxford University. Abbott won the Newdigate Prize in 2006, as a first-year student reading English....
  • 2007. Meirion Jordan
  • 2008. Returning, 1945. Rachel Piercey


See also

  • List of British literary awards
    List of British literary awards

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  • List of poetry awards
    List of poetry awards

    This is a list of awards that are, or have been, given out to writers of poetry, either for a specific poem, collection of poems, or body of work.Thousands of poetry awards and prizes are given throughout the world, ranging from the very well-respected to those that are little more than cons scamming would-be poets of their money , so called Vani...
  • List of literary awards
    List of literary awards

    This is a list of literary awards from around the world:...
  • List of years in poetry
    List of years in poetry

    This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry . These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry....
  • List of years in literature
    List of years in literature

    This page gives a chronological list of years in literature , with notable publications listed with their respective years. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance literature, Baroque literature and History of modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century....
  • List of prizes
  • Prizes named after people
    Prizes named after people

    This is a list of prizes that are named after people.For other lists of eponyms see Lists of etymologies.*Abel Prize - Niels Henrik Abel...
  • English poetry
    English poetry

    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in European culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe....
  • Oxford University Poetry Society
    Oxford University Poetry Society

    The Oxford University Poetry Society , founded in 1946 by Martin Starkie, is the centre of poetic life within the University of Oxford.The society is the only regular provider of poetry readings in Oxford: its weekly events on every Thursday of the Oxford University term are open to the public and members of the university alike, and genera...