Brian Cox (poet)

See index for CA sketch: Born September 5, 1928, in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England; died April 24, 2008. Educator, poet, editor, and author. Cox was a professor of English at the University of Manchester for nearly thirty years, retiring in 1993 as the John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature. For an even longer period, beginning in 1959, he was a founding coeditor of the Critical Quarterly, which became highly respected as a publisher of emerging poets such as Sylvia Plath, …