Kenneth Allott
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Kenneth Allott (1912-1973) was an Anglo Irish poet and academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold. His poetry was published in Poems (1938 Hogarth Press), The Ventriloquist's Doll (1943, Cresset Press) and Collected Poems (1975, Secker & Warburg). He held a position at Liverpool University from 1947.
He edited: The poems of William Habington (1948); the Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950); Selected poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1953); Five Uncollected Essays of Matthew Arnold (1953); and The Poems of Matthew Arnold (1965).
