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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 Dryden ¹
1689	Thomas Shadwell
1692	Nathum Tate
1715	Nicholas Rowe
1718	Laurence Eusden
1730	Colley Cibber
1757	William Whitehead ²
1785	Thomas Warton
1790	Henry Pye
1813	Robert Southey
1843	William Wordsworth
1850	Alfred, Lord Tennyson ³
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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