Oxford Professors of Poetry
- 1708 Joseph Trapp M.A. (); Magdalen
- 1718 Thomas Warton (the Elder) M.A. B.D. (1688?-1745); Magdalen
- 1728 Joseph Spence (1699-1768); New College; Afterwards Regius Professor of Modern History
- 1738 John Whitfield, M.A. (); Christ Church
- 1741 Robert Lowth M.A. (1710-1787); New College; Afterwards Bishop of St. David's, Oxford and London
- 1751 William Hawkins M.A. (); Pembroke
- 1757 Thomas Warton (the Younger) M.A. (1728-1790); Trinity College
- 1766 Benjamin Wheller, M.A. (); Magdalen; Afterwards Regius Professor of Divinity
- 1776 John Randolph M.A., D.D. (); Christ Church; Afterwards Regius Professor of Divinity
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- 1783 Robert Holmes M.A., D.D. (1748/9-1805); New College
- 1793 James Hurdis, B.D., D.D. (1763-1801); Magdalen
- 1802 Edward Copleston M.A. (1776-1849); Oriel College Provost; Afterwards Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St. Paul's
- 1812 John Josius Conybeare M.A. (1779-1824); Christ Church
- 1821 Henry Hart Milman M.A. (1791-1868); Brasenose College
- 1831 John Keble M.A. (1792-1866); Oriel College
- 1842 James Garbet M.A. (); Brasenose College
- 1852 Thomas Legh Claughton M.A. (1808-1892) Trinity College; Afterwards Bishop of Rochester and St Alban's
- 1857 Matthew Arnold M.A. (1822-1888); Oriel College; Fellow of Balliol
- 1867 Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Mart., D.C.L., M.A. (1810-1888); All Souls' College
- 1877 John Campbell Shairp M.A. (1819-1885); Balliol College; Principal of the University of St. Andrews
- 1885 Francis Turner Palgrave M.A. (1824-1897); Exeter College
- 1895 William John Courthope M.A. (1842-1917); New College
- 1901 Andrew Cecil Bradley M.A. (1851-1935); Balliol College
- 1906 John William Mackail M.A. (1859-1945); Balliol College
- 1911 Thomas Herbert Warren M.A. (1853-1930); Balliol College; President of Magdalen
- 1916 SUSPENDED
- 1920 William Paton Ker M.A. (1855-1923); All Souls' College
- 1923 Heathcote William Garrod M.A. (1878-1960); Merton College
- 1928 Ernest de Selincourt M.A. (1870-1943); University College
- 1933 George Stuart Gordon M.A. (1881-1942); President of Magdalen
- 1938 Adam Fox M.A. (1883-1977); Magdalen College
- 1943 SUSPENDED
- 1946 Maurice Bowra (1898-1971); Warden of All Souls' College
- 1951 C. Day Lewis M.A. (1904-1972); Wadham College
- 1956 Wystan Hugh Auden M.A. (1907-1973); Christ Church
- 1961 Robert von Ranke Graves M.A. (1895-1985); St John's College
- 1966 Edmund Charles Blunden M.A. (1896-1974); The Queen's College
- 1968 Roy Fuller (1912-1991)
- 1974 John Wain M.A. (1925-1994); Brasenose College
- 1979 Henry John Franklin Jones M.A. (1924-); Lincoln College
- 1984 Peter Levi M.A., S.J. (1931-2000); Campion Hall; Fellow of St Catherine's
- 1989 Seamus Heaney M.A. (1939-); Hon Fellow of Magdalen College
- 1994 James Fenton M.A. (1949-)
- 1999 Paul Muldoon (1951-)
Information courtesy Prof. Joan Pittock-Wesson, University of Aberdeen