Brian Cox (poet)

Charles Brian Cox CBE (5 September 1928 – 24 April 2008) was an English academic and poet.

[1] Cox was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received MA and MLitt degrees.

English teachers in more than half the grammar schools in the country subscribed to it.

These were controversial, due to their criticism of comprehensive schools and child-centred teaching methods.

[1] In February 1993 Cox gave a half-hour Opinions lecture televised on Channel 4 and subsequently published in The Times as "The right is wrong on English teaching".

Appearing on Opinions in 1993