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James Fenton. James Fenton’s rapid rise to literary fame in the 1980s served as a climax to the emergence of a new generation of English poets brought to wide attention by the publication of two influential and competitive anthologies, Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion’s Contemporary British Poetry (1982) and Michael Schmidt’s Some Contemporary Poets of Britain and Ireland (1983).
James Martin Fenton was born to an Anglican theologian and priest, John Charles Fenton, and Mary Hamilton Fenton; he was born in Lincoln in northern England and educated in part at the famous boys ...
JAMES FENTON was born in Lincoln and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a columnist for the Guardian .
Written for publication in The Guardian, Things That Have Interested Me was an article series formerly written by Ian Jack (editor of Granta ). The series was continued by James Fenton beginning September 2006 to May 2008. The James Fenton Website archives these articles in their entirety. Visit the 'Things That Have Interested Me' Archive.
James Fenton is an English journalist who is also well-regarded for his poetry and his work as a literary critic. For a time, he served as the Oxford Professor of Poetry. His first collection won a Gregory Award. He was also awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
Feb 8, 2010 · Penguin's Selected Poems is the first full selection of James Fenton's poems to be published, and represents the whole range of his work from light-verse to political and love poems to opera libretti. It includes early work from The Memory of War and Children in Exile as well as later work from Out of Danger, which won the Whitbread Poetry ...
James (Martin) Fenton 1949–. English poet and critic. An accomplished and significant poet, Fenton writes in several distinct styles. His fascination with information and vocabulary has led him ...
