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The first official Poet Laureate was Ben Jonson in 1619. There are also Poets Laureate in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom is Carol Ann Duffy. She was appointed Poet Laureate on 1 May 2009 to take the place of Andrew Motion. She is the first British woman Poet Laureate.
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom; In office 1 January 1896 – 2 June 1913: Monarch: Victoria. Edward VII. George V: Preceded by: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Succeeded by: Robert Bridges: Personal details; Born 30 May 1835 Headingley, Yorkshire, England: Died: 2 June 1913 (aged 78) Ashford, Kent, England: Spouse: Hester Jane Homan-Mulock: Occupation
1972 Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom [55] 1973 Honorary Member, the American Academy of Arts and Letters [ citation needed ] 2011 Honoured by the University of Oxford , his alma mater, as one of its 100 most distinguished members from ten centuries.
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom; In office 20 April 1785 – 21 May 1790: Monarch: George III: Preceded by: William Whitehead: Succeeded by: Henry James Pye: Personal details; Born 9 January 1728 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Died: 21 May 1790 (aged 62) Oxford, England: Parent
He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his death. In 2008, The Times ranked Hughes fourth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". He married fellow poet Sylvia Plath, an American, in 1956. They lived together in the United States and then in England, in what was known to be a tumultuous relationship.
Robert Southey (/ ˈ s aʊ ð i / or / ˈ s ʌ ð i /; [a] 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets , William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions.
Examples include the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, [6] which is designated by a "Presenting Partners" group from within the community, the Minnesota poet laureate chosen by the League of Minnesota Poets (est. 1934), [7] the Northampton Poet Laureate [8] chosen by the Northampton Arts Council, [9] and the Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate chosen by ten judges representing the Martha's Vineyard Poetry ...
