poet laureate

     

A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointe by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events. The plural form is poets laureate.

Trivia about poet laureate

  • This verse job is awarded on the advice of the prime minister / Whose motives may be underhanded, even sinister
  • In 2000 the Librarian of Congress announced that 95-year-old Stanley Kunitz would take up this post
  • In may 2009 Carol Ann Duffy became the first woman in history appointed to this U.K. post
  • The first to hold this lifetime appointment in England was John Dryden in 1668
  • Wordsworth was appointed to this post in 1843, succeeding his friend Robert Southey
  • The P.M.'s office offers a name to the sovereign, who then appoints the writer to this post
  • Writer Ted Kooser, given this title by the Library of Congress, was going to read his work "Delights and Shadows"
  • In 1690s England Thomas Shadwell & Nahum Tate held this post currently held by Ted Hughes

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