Poets Laureate and Prizes

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER

Poets Laureate and Prizes

Poets Laureate

Ben Jonson

1619–37

Sir William D'Avenant

1638–?

Official Holders

John Dryden	1668–89
Thomas Shadwell	1689–92
Nahum Tate	1692–1715
Nicholas Rowe	1715–18
Laurence Eusden	1718–30
Colley Cibber	1730–57
William Whitehead	1757–85
Thomas Warton	1785–90
Henry James Pye	1790–1813
Robert Southey	1813–43
William Wordsworth	1843–50
Alfred Tennyson	1850–92
Alfred Austin	1896–1913
Robert Bridges	1913–30
John Masefield	1930–67
Cecil Day-Lewis	1968–72
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