Adam Fox

Adam Fox ( * 1883, † 1977) was Dean of Divinity ( Dean of Theology) at Magdalen College. From 1938 to 1942 he was Professor of Poetry. Then he came as a canon to Westminster Abbey, where he lies buried.

During his time in Oxford, he was one of the so-called Inklings, a group of mostly Christian writer, which included in particular CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. At Oxford he published his four-volume poem Old King Coel, which is after the legendary father of Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, named. It does in Britain between the late Roman Empire. As a professor for Poetry he strove particularly to demand a seal whose reading would be pleasurable (So in Poetry for Pleasure), a seal whose access would be too hard to find, would in fact be meaningless in the long run. He criticized the strong in his time becoming modern poetry.

Fox is one of the people who shaped the intellectual life of his time. It represents the attempt to combine Platonic philosophy and Christianity in the 20th century. So he tried again to make it the natural reading for the readers of his time, for example, Plato. Interesting is the story of his election as Professor of Poetry. This office is determined by a choice of all MAs from the University of Oxford. When Fox heard of a him particularly unsuitable translucent candidates, he said over breakfast in the College: "They might as well just as well choose me. " Placed next to him Clive Staples Lewis replied out, " This is what we will do. " And then took successful preparations in hand.

Works

  • Dean Inge. Murray, London 1960
  • Old King Coel. A rhymed tale in four books. OUP, London 1937
  • Plato for Pleasure. Murray, London 1962
  • Poetry for Pleasure. Clarendon, Oxford 1938
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