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Award
Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize , more commonly the Newdigate Prize , is awarded to students of the
University of Oxford for the Best Composition in
English verse by an undergraduate student.
[1] It was founded in 1806 as a memorial to
Sir Roger Newdigate (1719–1806).
[2] The winning poem is announced at
Encaenia .
[3] Instructions are published as follows: "The length of the poem is not to exceed 300 lines.
[3] The metre is not restricted to
heroic couplets , but dramatic form of composition is not allowed." It is one of the many prizes awarded by this university to students and graduate students.
[4]
Overview
The first winner was
John Wilson ("Christopher North"). Notable winners have included
Robert Stephen Hawker ,
John Ruskin ,
Matthew Arnold ,
Laurence Binyon ,
Oscar Wilde ,
John Buchan ,
John Addington Symonds ,
James Laver ,
Donald Hall ,
James Fenton ,
P. M. Hubbard , and
Alan Hollinghurst .
The parallel award given at the University of Cambridge is the
Chancellor's Gold Medal .
Past titles and winners
Where known, the title of the winning poem is given, followed by the name of the author. Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Notable 19th-century winners
1813:
Francis Hawkins
1827: 'Pompeii',
Robert Stephen Hawker
1829: 'Voyages of Discovery to the Polar Regions',
Thomas Legh Claughton
1830: 'The African Desert',
George Kettilby Rickards
1834: 'The Hospice of St. Bernard',
Joseph Arnould
[5]
1837: 'The Gypsies',
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
1838: 'The Exile of St. Helena',
Joseph Henry Dart
1839: 'Salsette and Elephanta',
John Ruskin
[6]
1843: 'Cromwell',
Matthew Arnold
[7]
[8]
1844: 'Battle of the Nile',
Joseph Lloyd Brereton
1845: 'Petra',
John William Burgon
1852: 'The Feast of Belshazzar',
Sir Edwin Arnold
1853: 'The Ruins of Egyptian Thebes',
Samuel Harvey Reynolds
1857: 'The Temple of Janus',
Philip Stanhope Worsley
[9]
1860: 'The Escorial',
John Addington Symonds
1868: 'The Catacombs',
John Alexander Stewart
1875: 'David Livingstone',
George Earle Buckle
1877:
John Brooks
1878: 'Ravenna',
Oscar Wilde
[8]
1880: 'Raleigh',
Rennell Rodd
1883:
John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols
1886: 'Savonarola',
R. L. Gales
1887: 'Sakya-Muni: The Story of Buddha',
Sidney A. Alexander
1888: 'Gordon in Africa',
Arthur Waugh
1898: 'The Pilgrim Fathers',
John Buchan
1890: 'Persephone',
Laurence Binyon
1895: 'Montezuma',
J. S. Arkwright
1900: 'Robespierre',
Arthur Carré
20th century
1901: 'Galileo',
William Garrod
1902: 'Minos',
Ernest Wodehouse
1903: not awarded
1904: 'Delphi',
George Bell
1905: 'Garibaldi',
Arthur E. E. Reade
1906: 'The Death of Shelley',
Geoffrey Scott
1907: 'Camoens',
Robert Cruttwell
1908: 'Holyrood',
Julian Huxley
1909: 'Michelangelo',
Frank Ashton-Gwatkin
1910: 'Atlantis',
Charles Bewley
1911: 'Achilles',
Roger Heath
1912: 'Richard I Before Jerusalem',
William Chase Greene
1913: 'Oxford',
Maurice Roy Ridley
1914: 'The Burial of Sophocles', Robert William Sterling
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
1921: 'Cervantes',
James Laver
1922: 'Mount Everest',
James Reid
1923: 'London',
Christopher Scaife
1924: 'Michelangelo',
Franklin McDuffee
1925: 'Byron',
Edgar McInnis
1926: not awarded
1927: 'Julia, Daughter of Claudius',
Gertrude Trevelyan
1928: 'The Mermaid Tavern',
Angela Cave
1929: 'The Sands of Egypt',
Phyllis Hartnoll
1930: 'Daedalus',
Josephine Fielding
1931: 'Vanity Fair',
Michael Balkwill
1932: 'Sir Walter Scott',
Richard Hennings
1933: 'Ovid among the Goths',
Philip Maitland Hubbard
[10]
1934: 'Fire',
Edward Lowbury
1935: 'Canterbury',
Allan Plowman
1936: 'Rain',
David Winser
1937: 'The Man in the Moon',
Margaret Stanley-Wrench
1938: 'Milton Blind',
Michael Thwaites
1939: 'Dr Newman Revisits Oxford',
Kenneth Kitchin
1940–1946: suspended due to war
1947: 'Nemesis',
Merton Atkins
1948: 'Caesarion', Peter Way
1949: 'The Black Death',
Peter Weitzman
1950: 'Eldorado',
John Bayley
1951: 'The Queen of Sheba',
Michael Hornyansky
1952: 'Exile',
Donald Hall (published in OP 1953)
[11]
1953: not awarded
1954: not awarded
1955: 'Elegy for a Dead Clown',
(Edwin) Stuart Evans
1956: 'The Deserted Altar', David Posner
1957: 'Leviathan',
Robert James Maxwell
1958: 'The Earthly Paradise',
Jon Stallworthy
1959: not awarded
1960: 'A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel',
John Fuller
1961: not awarded
1962: 'May Morning',
Stanley Johnson
[8]
1963: not awarded
1964: 'Disease',
James Hamilton-Paterson
[12]
1965: 'Fear',
Peter Jay
1966: not awarded
1967: not awarded
1968: 'The Opening of Japan',
James Fenton
[13]
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
1974: 'Death of a Poet',
Alan Hollinghurst
1975: 'Inland',
Andrew Motion
1976: 'Hostages',
David Winzar
1977: 'The Fool', Michael King
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
[14]
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
1990: 'Mapping',
Roderick Clayton
1991: not awarded
1992: 'Green Thought',
Fiona Sampson
1993: 'The Landing',
Caron Röhsler
1994: 'Making Sense',
James Merino
1995: 'Judith with the Head of Holofernes',
Antony Dunn (published in OP IX.1)
1996: not awarded
1997: not awarded
1998: not awarded
1999: not awarded
21st century
2000: 'A Book of Hours'.
2005: 'Lyons',
Arina Patrikova
2006: 'BEE-POEMS',
Paul Thomas Abbott
2007:
Meirion Jordan
2008: 'Returning, 1945',
Rachel Piercey
2009: 'Allotments',
Arabella Currie
2010: 'The Mapmaker's Daughter',
Lavinia Singer
2011: not awarded
2012: not awarded
2013: 'Edgelands', Daisy Syme-Taylor
[15]
2014: 'The Centrifuge', Andrew Wynn Owen
[16]
2015: not awarded
2016: 'Sinai', Mary Anne Clark
[17]
2017: 'Borderlines',
Dominic Hand (published in Oxford Poetry XVII.i)
[18]
[19]
2018: not awarded
[20]
2019: not awarded
[21]
2020: 'the summer critter speaks not of frost.',
Rachel Ka Yin Leung
[22]
[23]
2021: 'Koinobionts', Annabelle Fuller
[24]
2022: 'pecking orders', Maggie Wang
[25]
2023: 'The girl I saw through the James Webb Telescope', Nicholas Stone
[26]
[27]
See also
References
Notes
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"Prizes and Studentships" . www.english.ox.ac.uk . Retrieved 28 April 2023 . The prize is open to current matriculated undergraduate students of the university.
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"Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize" . Oxford Poetry . Archived from
the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012 . Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize for English Verse was founded in 1806 as a memorial to Sir Roger, fifth baronet (1719–1806) and Oxford university politician.
^
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b
"Newdigate Prize | British literary prize" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 12 December 2020 .
^
"Prizes and Studentships" . www.english.ox.ac.uk . Retrieved 12 December 2020 .
^ Boyd Litzinger; Donald Smalley (1995). Richard Browning: The Critical Heritage . Routledge. p. 93.
ISBN
0-415-13451-X .
^ Hewison, Robert (2004).
"Ruskin, John (1819–1900), art critic and social critic" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/24291 .
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 12 December 2020 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
Cromwell: A Prize Poem, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford; June 28, 1843 at Google Books
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"Review: Stanley, I Presume by Stanley Johnson" . the Guardian . 22 March 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2020 .
^ Abbott, Claude Colleer (1955). The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (2nd ed.).
Oxford University Press . p. 5.
^ "Mr. P. M. Hubbard".
The Times . 19 March 1980. p. 16.
^ Learning, Gale, Cengage (2016).
A Study Guide for Donald Hall's "Names of Horses" . Gale, Cengage Learning.
ISBN
978-1-4103-5358-0 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link )
^ Thomson, Ian (5 June 2004).
"Profile: James Hamilton-Paterson" . the Guardian . Retrieved 12 December 2020 .
^
"Professor James Fenton" . British Council Literature .
British Council . Retrieved 14 January 2016 .
^
"Learning curve | The Guardian | guardian.co.uk" . www.theguardian.com . Retrieved 12 December 2020 .
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"Merton Student Wins Newdigate Prize" . Merton College, Oxford. Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
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"Andrew Wynn Owen Wins the Newdigate Prize" . Magdalen College, Oxford. Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
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"Prizes and Studentships" . University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 27 October 2016 . In 2016 the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize was awarded to Mary Anne Clark for her entry 'Sinai'.
^
"Faculty Prizewinners Announced" . University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 1 June 2017 .
^
"Oriel Undergraduate Dominic Hand Wins University's Newdigate Prize for Poetry" . Retrieved 2 July 2017 .
^
"Prizes and Studentships" . University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 4 March 2019 . In 2018 the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize was not awarded.
^
"Prizes and Studentships" . University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 12 June 2019 . In 2019 the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize was not awarded.
^
"Prizes and Studentships | Faculty of English" . 2 June 2020. Archived from
the original on 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020 .
^
"Sir Roger Newdigate prize awarded to Leung Rachel Ka Yin" . University of Oxford . 10 June 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020 .
^
"Prizes and Studentships" . University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 10 May 2021 . In 2021 the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize was awarded to Annabelle Fuller for her entry 'Koinobionts'.
^
"Maggie Wang wins the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize with her poem 'pecking orders' " . www.english.ox.ac.uk . Retrieved 28 April 2023 .
^
"HMC Law student wins Sir Roger Newdigate Prize" . www.hmc.ox.ac.uk . Retrieved 26 May 2023 .
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"Sir Roger Newdigate Prize 2023: winner announced" . www.english.ox.ac.uk . Retrieved 26 May 2023 .
Sources
Richter, editor, Annie J. (1946). Literary Prizes and Their Winners . R. R. Bowker Co.