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James Martin Fenton FRSL FRSA (born 25 April 1949) is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. [1] He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.
A poet, essayist, journalist, art critic, and theater reviewer, James Fenton is widely considered one of the most talented and versatile British writers of his generation.
James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist.
James Fenton (born April 25, 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England) is an English poet and journalist who was remarked upon for his facility with a wide variety of verse styles and for the liberal political views threading his oeuvre.
The Memory of War (1982), drawing on his experience in the Far East, secured his reputation as one of the finest poets of his generation. He won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1984 for Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984 and in 1994 Fenton became Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
Visit Fenton's special Poetry Archive webpage and listen to recordings of him reading the poems 'Wind', 'Blood and Lead', 'Jerusalem', and 'In Paris with You'.
Biography. Poet and critic James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949, and was brought up in Yorkshire and Staffordshire. He was educated at a musical preparatory school attached to Durham Cathedral, where he was a chorister, progressing from there to Repton public school in Derbyshire.
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