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Newdigate|ˈnjuːdɪgət|
The name of Sir Roger Newdigate (1719–1806), M.P. for Oxford University, used attrib. and absol. to designate an English verse prize founded by him at Oxford University in 1805, or the poetry associated with this prize.
1852Prospective Rev. VIII. 523 These [sc. the mechanical parts of rhythm and metre] any industrious person will find in any collection of the Newdegate forms [ed. 1965 Newdigate poems]. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. v. 383 You should try for the Newdigate Prize. Ibid. viii. 414, I am not going to have the Newdigate prizeman shown as brother to a scare-crow. 1860J. A. Symonds Let. 15 June (1967) I. 245, I am so glad you are pleased about the Newdigate. 1929Ld. Birkenhead Hundred Best Eng. Ess. 386 He subsequently entered Christ Church, Oxford, and won the Newdigate Prize. 1931‘G. Trevor’ Murder at School i. 12 So far he seemed to have done nothing in life except win the Newdigate. 1969G. Smith in A. Huxley Lett. 11, 1915... His Byronic poem on Glastonbury fails to gain the Newdigate Prize. 1975Times 25 Aug. 5/7 John Buchan..won the Newdigate and was President of the Union. |