Anne Wright
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"Anne Margaret Wright" Order of the British Empire/CBE is a United Kingdom/British academic and academic administrator.

She was educated at King's College London (BA English, 1967; PhD, 1970). She was a Lecturer in English at Lancaster University from 1969 to 1971 then Senior Lecturer in Modern English at Hatfield Polytchnic (now the University of Hertfordshire) from 1971 to 84. She served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Sunderland from 1992 to 1998. She was Chair of the National Lottery Commission 2005 to 2013. She was made a Order of the British Empire/CBE in 1997.

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I wanted him to stop, ... I tried not to nag. What good does it do? It just causes dissension.

He was delighted, ... He thought you had to be a rock star or film star to be recognized.

He said, 'I can't teach someone how to write,' ... He just thought if you were a poet, you wrote poetry.

Was very compassionate. He wrote a lot about people down on their luck.

It was peaceful, ... It was very different than anything he knew. I think that appealed to him.

He loved this country, ... But he despaired for it.

From the letters, people would certainly learn more about how a poem is made, ... They may learn more about iambic pentameter than they ever wished.

He was fascinated, ... He and Betty Kray [a former director of the Academy of American Poets] would talk about baking bread all the time.

Someone once asked him, 'How many poets do you know there?' ... He said, 'Thank God, none.' .