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Updated: May 12, 2025
How he will crow!" Which historiette repeated itself many a time in the family annals. In Lent term, 1838, he was hard at work on the new poem. He wrote: "I must give an immense time every day to the Newdigate, which I must have, if study will get it. I have much to revise.
There were the Hertford and the Ireland scholarships, almost as a matter of course; a first in moderations, but that went without saying; at least one of the Vice-Chancellor's prizes probably the Newdigate, or some other unconsidered trifle of the kind; another first class in Greats; a fellowship. "If you don't do more than this I will be disappointed in you," the school tutor said.
Southey took care of him with the rest of the family when Coleridge disappeared into the vague; and Hartley, after schooling at Ambleside, was elected to a post-mastership at Merton College, Oxford. He missed the Newdigate thrice, and only got a second in the schools, but was more than consoled by a Fellowship at Oriel.
He twice gained the Chancellor's medal for English verse, with poems admirably planned, and containing passages of real beauty, but which may not be republished in the teeth of the panegyric which, within ten years after they were written, he pronounced upon Sir Roger Newdigate.
Though I was tried I did not even get a seat in the eight, contrary to general expectation, but I know that it was his influence that kept me out of it. "We had only one more tussle, and again I was worsted. I went in for the Newdigate that is the English poetry prize, you know.
The resignation of Sir Robert Newdigate, one of the members returned to parliament for the University of Oxford, in the meantime, induced several members of that learned body, who were friendly to Jones, to turn their eyes towards him as their future representative.
Yours very sincerely, Of all the prizes which Oxford could bestow, the Newdigate used to be the most popular. Its fortunate winner was an admitted poet in an age when poetry was read, and he appeared in his glory at Commemoration, speaking what the ladies could understand and admire.
Perhaps the most romantic scene that the Sheldonian has witnessed was the Installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor in 1833, when the whole theatre went mad with enthusiasm as the writer of the Newdigate, Joseph Arnould of Wadham, declaimed his lines on Napoleon, And the dark soul a world could scarce subdue Bent to thy genius, chief of Waterloo.
The small black eyes under the white hair flamed. Constance started. Miss Wenlock put up a soothing hand "Dear Sarah, are you thinking of any one?" "Of course I am!" said Mrs. Mulholland firmly. "There is a young gentleman at Marmion who thinks the world belongs to him. Oh, you know Mr. Falloden, Grace! He got the Newdigate last year, and the Greek Verse the other day.
Lambkin's poem, written for the Newdigate Prize in 1893 on the prescribed theme for that year, "The Benefits of the Electric Light," might fairly be considered a warning to the examiners to set their subject with care. These are successful books for children, of a great popularity, and may be read with considerable pleasure by elder persons.
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