Brian Cox on Opinions on 28 February 1993

Charles Brian Cox CBE (5 September 1928 – 24 April 2008) was an English academic and poet.Lindsay Paterson, �
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��, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 2012, accessed 9 March 2015. Cox was educated at

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, where he received MA and MLitt degrees. In 1959 he and his friend A. E. Dyson founded the literary journal ''

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''. English teachers in more than half the grammar schools in the country subscribed to it. The journal published five ''

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'' between 1969 and 1977. These were controversial, due to their criticism of comprehensive schools and child-centred teaching methods. In February 1993 Cox gave a half-hour ''

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'' lecture televised on Channel 4 and subsequently published in ''

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'' as "The right is wrong on English teaching"."The right is wrong on English teaching", Brian Cox, ''The Times'', 1 March 1993

Works

*''The Free Spirit'' (1963). *(with A. E. Dyson), ''Modern Poetry'' (1963). *(with A. E. Dyson), ''Practical Criticism of Poetry'' (1965) *''The Great Betrayal'' (1992).

Poetry

*''Two-Headed Monster'' (1985). *''Collected Poems'' (1993). *''Emeritus'' (2001). *''My Eightieth Year to Heaven'' (2007).

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External Resources

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, Manchester. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Brian 1928 births 2008 deaths English educational theorists English male poets Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge 20th-century English poets 20th-century English male writers