More squabbling over Oxford poetry post

The Telegraph reports on the latest twist in Ricky Gervais new show on BBC 2 (jk!), in which Michael Horowitz insults Roger Lewis's taste after Lewis claimed to be inspired by, among other things, "The colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes":

Mr Horovitz, 75, the renowned Beat poet and founder of the Poetry Olympics, was unimpressed. "Mr Lewis could presumably spout the hind legs off a donkey about these subjects, but how does this qualify him to follow Masefield, Auden, Graves and Heaney as the next Professor of Poetry?" he writes in a letter to today's Daily Telegraph.

The examples listed by Mr Lewis are "more emblematic of pseudointellectual chutzpah than Parnassian authority" because many of them cannot be seen, heard or learned, Mr Horovitz argued . . .