{"id":75,"date":"2010-02-05T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/?p=75"},"modified":"2010-02-05T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:30:51","slug":"poetslaureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/poetslaureate\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Poets Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title “laureate” was given by the Cambridge and Oxford universities to various poets in the l5th century. When dramatist John Dryden was given a stipend in 1668 to write court poetry to celebrate British state occasions, it heralded the modern status of the title. Customary, poets laureate were given an honorarium of a barrel of wine and held the title until death, the exception being Dryden who was sacked. In 1999, Andrew Motion accepted \u00a35,000 rather than wine and agreed to be appointed for 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Poet Laureate<\/th>\nAppeleted<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Carol Ann Duffy<\/a><\/td>\n2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrew Motion<\/td>\n1999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edward (Ted) Hughes<\/td>\n1984<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sir John Betjeman<\/td>\n1972<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cecil Day Lewis<\/td>\n1968<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Masefield<\/td>\n1930<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Bridges<\/td>\n1813<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alfred Austin<\/td>\n1898<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alfred Lord Tennyson<\/td>\n1850<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William Wordsworth<\/td>\n1843<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Southey<\/td>\n1813<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Henry James Pye<\/td>\n1799<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas Warton<\/td>\n1785<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William Whiteheed<\/td>\n1757<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Colley Cibber<\/td>\n1730<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rev. Laurence Eusden<\/td>\n1718<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicholas Rowe<\/td>\n1715<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nathan Tate<\/td>\n1692<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas Shadwall<\/td>\n1689<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Dryden<\/td>\n1868<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sir William d\u2019Avenant<\/td>\n1638<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ben Jonson<\/td>\n1616<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samuel Daniel<\/td>\n1599<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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