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Thursday, June 23, 2011

POETS LAUREATE


POETS LAUREATE
Ben Jonson
1619 - 1637
Sir William Davenant
1638 - 1668
John Dryden
1668 – 1688
Thomas Shadwell
1688 – 1692
Nahum Tate
1692 – 1715
Nicholas Rowe
1715 – 1718
Laurence Eusden
1718 – 1730
Colly Cibber
1730 - 1757
William Whitehead
1757 – 1785
Thomas Warton
1785 – 1790
Henry James Pye
1790 – 1813
Robert Southey
1813 – 1843
William Wordsworth
1843 – 1850
Alfred Tennyson
1850 – 1892
Alfred Austin
1896 – 1913
Robert Bridges
1913 – 1930
John Masefield
1930 – 1967
Cecil Day - Lewis
1968 – 1972
Sir John Betjeman
1972 – 1984
Ted Hughes
(1984-        )

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