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Seatonian, a.|siːˈtəʊnɪən|
[f. the name of the Eng. divine Thomas Seaton (1684–1741), the founder of the prize + -ian.]
Seatonian prize: a prize awarded (since 1750) for religious poetry at the University of Cambridge. Also ellipt. (in quot., a poem to be submitted for this).
[1773(title) Musæ Seatonianæ. A complete collection of the Cambridge prize poems, from their first institution..to the present time.] 1795A. W. Trollope (title) The destruction of Babylon, a Seatonian prize poem. 1864A. J. Munby Diary 27 Sept. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 203 Finished my first Seatonian; hurriedly, and with brain throbbing. 1908H. Pentin Judith iv. 68 In the year 1865 ‘Judith’ was the subject set for the Seatonian Prize Poem at Cambridge. 1961Listener 31 Aug. 323/3 Very occasionally in the blank-verse wastes of the Seatonian prize-poems one comes across a single line..that adumbrates the future author of A Song to David. 1972Cambr. Univ. Reporter 6 Dec. 391 The Examiners for the Seatonian Prize for the best English Poem on a sacred subject give notice that the subject for the year 1973 is ‘Apocalypse’. |