poets laureate
poets laureate
1 post not officially established until 1668; the previous laureates had included Ben Jonson | |
2 Appointed after Thomas Gray declined | |
3 Appointed after Samuel | |
1668 | John Dryden1 |
1689 | Thomas Shadwell |
1692 | Nathum Tate |
1715 | Nicholas Rowe |
1718 | Laurence Eusden |
1730 | Colley Cibber |
1757 | William Whitehead2 |
1785 | Thomas Warton |
1790 | Henry Pye |
1813 | Robert Southey |
1843 | William Wordsworth |
1850 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson3 |
1896 | Alfred Austin |
1913 | Robert Bridges |
1930 | John Masefield |
1968 | Cecil Day Lewis |
1972 | Sir John Betjeman |
1984 | Ted Hughes |
1999 | Andrew Motion |
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