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  • The Lives of the Poets-Laureate (1853) Wiltshire Stanton Austin & John Ralph 2491555The Lives of the Poets-Laureate1853Wiltshire Stanton Austin & John...
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  • Author:Alfred Tennyson (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    TennysonBaron Tennyson; poet laureate of the United Kingdom after William Wordsworth and one of the most popular English poets in literature. one or more...
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  • Author:Nicholas Rowe (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    dramatist and poet; made poet laureate in 1715. The Fair Penitent Tatler Number 258 (1710) The Dramatick Works of Nicholas Rowe, Volume 1 (1720) The Ambitious...
    2 KB (224 words) - 14:12, 2 March 2023
  • Author:Nahum Tate (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    TateNahumTateNahum TateAnglo-Irish poet, playwright, hymnist, and librettist; named British Poet Laureate in 1692 The History of King Lear (1681) Dido and Aeneas...
    1 KB (218 words) - 22:11, 19 February 2024
  • Author:Colley Cibber (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    was appointed Poet Laureate Plays, 1721 vol 2 Vol. I. Love's last shift; or, The fool in fashion. The tragical history of King Richard the Third. Love makes...
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  • Author:Henry James Pye (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853) "Pye, Henry James," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford...
    855 bytes (196 words) - 14:12, 2 March 2023
  • Poets Laureate of the United Kingdom In the medieval period, the royal poet was called the Versificator Regis, and the dates are not exactly known. Richard...
    3 KB (209 words) - 20:44, 22 September 2023
  • Author:Laurence Eusden (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    EusdenLaurenceEusdenEnglish poet; poet laureate from 1718 to 1730 In Poetical Miscellanies (1714): (external scan) “The Court of Venus” (p. 97) “The Speech of Pluto to Proserpine”...
    3 KB (334 words) - 14:12, 2 March 2023
  • Author:William Whitehead (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    "William Whitehead", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853) "Whitehead, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900...
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  • Author:Edmund Spenser (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    SpenserEnglish poet and poet laureate; best known for his vast epic poem The Faerie Queene The Shepheardes Calender (1579) Daphnaïda (1591–2) The Faerie Queene...
    2 KB (297 words) - 08:01, 11 June 2024
  • Author:Robert Seymour Bridges (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    SeymourBridgesRobert BridgesEnglish poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930 This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement...
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  • Author:Robert Southey (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    Cottle "Robert Southey", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853) "Southey, Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900...
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  • Author:Alfred Austin (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    AustinEnglish poet, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Tennyson Randolph: A Poem in Two Cantos (1855) Five Years of It (1858) Russia...
    3 KB (530 words) - 08:30, 2 June 2023
  • Author:John Masefield (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    MasefieldJohnMasefieldJohn MasefieldEnglish poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement...
    7 KB (831 words) - 08:14, 1 July 2024
  • Author:Thomas Shadwell (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    "Thomas Shadwell", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853) "Shadwell, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900...
    2 KB (347 words) - 14:12, 2 March 2023
  • Author:Ben Jonson (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    Timber, or Discoveries To Celia "Ben Jonson", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853) "Jonson, Ben," by Adolphus William...
    6 KB (684 words) - 22:48, 15 November 2023
  • Author:William Davenant (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    William Davenant", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853) "D'Avenant, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900...
    5 KB (644 words) - 08:47, 13 February 2024
  • Author:William Wordsworth (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    "William Wordsworth", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853) "Wordsworth, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900...
    6 KB (790 words) - 14:20, 6 March 2024
  • Author:John Dryden (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    " in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 2, pp. 1–209 "John Dryden," in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W...
    9 KB (972 words) - 17:32, 31 May 2024
  • Author:Thomas Warton (1728-1790) (category Poets laureate of the United Kingdom)
    History at Oxford, and Poet-Laureat. Now first collected (1791) "Reverend Thomas Warton", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J....
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