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Poets Laureate Throughout History
Discover the poets that have been honoured through the ages with the title of Poets Laureate.
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Poets Laureate |
Dates |
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Edmund Spenser |
1591 - 1599 |
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Samuel Daniel |
1599 -1619 |
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Ben Jonson |
1619 - 1637 |
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William Davenant |
1638 - 1668 |
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John Dryden |
1668 - 1689 |
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Thomas Shadwell |
1689 - 1692 |
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Nahum Tate |
1692 - 1715 |
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Nicholas Rowe |
1715 - 1718 |
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Laurence Eusden |
1718 - 1730 |
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Colley Cibber |
1730 - 1757 |
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William Whitehead |
1757 - 1785 |
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Thomas Warton |
1785 -1790 |
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Henry James Pye |
1790 - 1813 |
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Robert Southey |
1813 - 1843 |
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William Wordsworth |
1843 - 1850 |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson |
1850 - 1892 |
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Alfred Austin |
1896 - 1913 |
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Robert Bridges |
1913 - 1930 |
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John Masefield |
1930 - 1967 |
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Cecil Day-Lewis |
1967 - 1972 |
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Sir John Betjeman |
1972 - 1984 |
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Ted Hughes |
1984 - 1998 |
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Andrew Motion |
1999 - 2009 |
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Carol Ann Duffy |
2009 - |
