Geoffrey Hill is the Oxford Poetry Prof

After reporting earlier in the day about the last-minute shenanigans in the Oxford poetry professor race, Dave Itzkoff brings the circus to a close:

The 2010 race for Oxford University’s professor of poetry had it all: newfangled rules to allow online voting, an 11th-hour withdrawal by its only female candidate, a furious final round of campaigning by its 10 remaining contenders and plenty of name-calling. And in the end, the front-runner won, anyway.

And that front-runner would be Geoffrey Hill.