Kenneth Allott

Kenneth Allott (1911-1973) was a Welsh poet and academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold. His poetry was published in Poems (1938 Hogarth Press), The Ventriloquist's Doll (1943, Cresset Press) and Collected Poems (1975, Secker & Warburg). He held a position at Liverpool University from 1947.

He edited:

• The poems of William Habington (1948)
• The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950)
• Selected poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1953)
• Five Uncollected Essays of Matthew Arnold (1953)
• The Poems of Matthew Arnold (1965).