Kenneth Allott
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Kenneth Allott (1911-1973) was a Welsh 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)
- The Poems of Matthew Arnold (1965).
