James Fenton

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human journalist librettist literary critic playwright poet

James Fenton is a British poet, journalist, and literary critic known for his politically engaged verse and his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry.

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Label	Occurrences
James Fenton canonical	2

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ journalist ⓘ librettist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ
awardReceived	Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitbread Award for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
dateOfBirth	1949-04-25 ⓘ
educatedAt	Magdalen College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ surface form: Oxford University
employer	The Guardian NERFINISHED ⓘ The Independent NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Statesman NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Review of Books NERFINISHED ⓘ
endTime	1999 (Oxford Professor of Poetry) ⓘ
familyName	Fenton NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	drama ⓘ journalism ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ opera libretti ⓘ poetry ⓘ
genre	lyric poetry ⓘ political poetry ⓘ
givenName	James ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	Royal Society of Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	political poetry ⓘ
name	James Fenton NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	British ⓘ
notableFor	politically engaged verse ⓘ
notableWork	A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed NERFINISHED ⓘ All the Wrong Places NERFINISHED ⓘ Children in Exile NERFINISHED ⓘ Out of Danger NERFINISHED ⓘ Terminal Moraine NERFINISHED ⓘ The Memory of War and Children in Exile NERFINISHED ⓘ Yellow Tulips NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ poet ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	Oxford Professor of Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ
residence	United Kingdom ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Darien Angadi NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	1994 (Oxford Professor of Poetry) ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: James Fenton
Description of subject: James Fenton is a British poet, journalist, and literary critic known for his politically engaged verse and his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fenton → hasNotableBearer → James Fenton ⓘ

Newdigate Prize → notableWinner → James Fenton ⓘ