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The Library has lately received an interesting gift from Mr. Thornton K. Lothrop of Boston, consisting of a collection of poems written by Oxford undergraduates in competition for the Newdigate Prize, offered yearly from 1826 to 1890.
Among the winners of the Newdigate prizes have been a number of famous men. In 1812, Henry Hart Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize for "The Escorial."
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