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John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate. The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the prime minister.The role does not entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation that the holder will write verse for significant national occasions.
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate, serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry.
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) [1] [2] [3] is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age ...
"for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition" [59] novel, poetry, translation 1959: Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) Italy: Italian "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times" [60] poetry 1960: Saint-John ...
The current poet laureate of Alabama is Ashley M. Jones. Alabama has had an official poet laureate since 1930. The Alabama Writer's Cooperative (formerly the Alabama Writers' Conclave), described as "a voluntary organization of Alabama historians, playwrights, fiction writers, poets, and newspaper writers" first recommended in 1930 Samuel Minturn Peck to Governor Bibb Graves.
The position of U.S. poet laureate has been historically vague. Here’s what the poet is actually required to do, the office’s history and who has served in the role.
Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1981–82; Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000; Yanka Kupala (1882–1942), Belarus poet; Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), US counterculture poet and author; Jalu Kurek (1904–1983), Polish poet and prose writer; Momoko Kuroda (黒田杏子, born 1938 ...
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (/ ˈ t ɛ n ɪ s ən /; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet.He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign.