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Oxford chooses first female prof of poetry.(NEWSWATCH)
Alumna Ruth Padel won election as professor of poetry at Oxford University UK, the first female to fill the nation's most important academic poetry position since it was created in 1708.
She said she felt "honored" and "humbled" to accept the professorship, whose previous holders included W.H. Auden, Matthew Arnold and Seamus Heaney. A great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, she will work to unite poetry and science.
Padel plans to "encourage, across the university, the reading, the writing and ...
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