- (650 words) - Rudyard Smith stood in his Oxford University office gazing at his companion, Professor Charles Elliot in disbelief. “Jackson Wilde, Jackson bloody Wilde.” Charles flushed, “well it wasn’t my decision, you know that Ruddy.” “The ‘people’s poet,’ Wilde by name, wild by nature, God, how could they allow him in here! Bloody … Continue reading One Man in His Time