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Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.


James Fenton


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He was political correspondent of the New Statesman where he worked alongside Christopher Hitchens Julian Barnes and Martin Amis. He was appointed Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1994 a post he held till 1999. " In response to criticisms of his comparatively slim 'Selected Poems' (2006) Fenton warned against the notion of poets churning out poetry in a regular automated fashion.

He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.

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