Not very Darwinian of the great-great-grand-daughter of Charles Darwin to have resigned, under pressure (she turns out to have written emails reminding people that her rival, Derek Walcott, had an accusation of sexual misconduct against him), from the Oxford University poetry chair she just won.
Having done what she needed to do to triumph in the struggle for dominance, Ruth Padel caved to pressure from the pack.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:41AM
OK, UD, but pack dominance is not what it’s about: for Darwin, it’s how many offspring she leaves behind. I guess in this instance it would be how many students imitated her cataleptic iambic trimeters or catatonic spondaic parameters or whatever her poetic thing is.