From the more general use of the term " poet laureate " arose its restriction in England to an official office of Poet Laureate, attached to the royal household.

The present British Poet Laureate is Carol Ann Duffy, appointed poet laureate in May 2009.

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Richard Tuttle served as Poet Laureate in 2007 and the reigning poet laureate for both 2008 and 2009 is Elise Paschen.

Poet laureate Sir John Betjeman wrote a poem entitled " The Licorice Fields at Pontefract ".

An important edition was edited by Cecil Day Lewis, later Poet laureate.

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From 1984 to 1985 he was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, the United States ' equivalent of a national poet laureate, but did not serve due to illness.

Poet laureate Robert Bridges sparked the debate when he argued:

Playwright and Poet laureate # British Poets Laureate | Poet Laureate Colley Cibber, the first actor-managerIn particular, it was an alternative to the pantomime and special-effects dominated stages, and it presented opposition ( Tory party ) satire.

He was the first poet laureate to receive a fixed salary of £ 27 instead of the historic tierce of Canary wine ( though it was still a fairly nominal payment ; then as now the Poet Laureate had to look to extra sales generated by the prestige of the office to make significant money from the Laureateship ).

There was a campaign to have him appointed Poet Laureate on the death of John Betjeman, but to the people of his home town, he became " the greatest poet laureate we never had ".

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British Poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson lived at nearby Farringford House ( on the road between Freshwater and Alum Bay ).

Individuals listed here include state and local poets laureate in addition to Poet Laureate Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress, informally known as United States Poets Laureate.

Early education was at Maramon and his teacher was Poet laureate, Chekottassan.

Revolutionary Hindi poet Damoder Swarup ' Vidrohi ' and Poet laureate Madan Lal Verma ' Krant ' were also born in this district.

** Donald Hall, American poet and U. S. Poet Laureate

* Donald Hall ( b. 1928 ), US Poet Laureate ( 2006 )

Former faculty and affiliates, Richard Wilbur, Mark Strand, and Donald Hall were United States Poet Laureates.

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*" Donald Hall, Poet Laureate of the United States, talks with Robert Birnbaum " on Identity Theory website, posted December 18, 2006

Poet Donald Hall wrote a poem, " Beans and Franks ", about the closing of a J. J. Newberry store in Franklin, New Hampshire.

Ellis collaborated with future United States Poet Laureate Donald Hall on a book, Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, published in 1976.

* " Poet and Painter Overture ," in The New American Poetry, edited by Donald M. Allen ( New York: Evergreen-Grove, 1960 ), pp. 418-419.

Poet and lead singer of King Missile, John S. Hall has also long been a vocal opponent, taking issue with such factors as its inherently competitive nature and what he considers its lack of stylistic diversity.

Bob Eubanks returned as a panelist and was joined by hosts Monty Hall and Tom Kennedy, frequent Gong Show contributors Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr ( who shared a square ), original Hollywood Squares regular Rose Marie, and frequent game show panel members Betty White, Jo Anne Worley, and Nipsey Russell, who performed a poem in his guise of " The Poet Laureate of Television ".

* The hitchhiking scene with Leslie Howard was parodied by comedian Chris Elliott in The Traveling Poet, a short film produced by Brad Hall for television's Late Night with David Letterman.

Hall was named the fourteenth U. S. Poet Laureate, succeeding Ted Kooser.

The character can count various celebrities among her fans, including Michael Parkinson, writer Willis Hall, the former Poet Laureate John Betjeman and the late Russell Harty, who formed themselves into the British League for Hilda Ogden.

In 2001, he was named Poet in Residence at the Royal Albert Hall.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

There is a description of the figure of Oxford in The Revenge of Bussy D ' Ambois, a 1613 play by George Chapman, who has been suggested as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Poet and playwright who created classical theatre in Russia

The elector Frederick of Saxony approached the emperor Frederick III, who named Conrad Celtes Poet Laureate ( Honored Poet ) upon his return.

An ode in her memory, " So many true princesses who have gone ", composed by the then Master of the King's Musick Sir Edward Elgar to words by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, was sung at the unveiling and conducted by the composer.

The first holder of the title was Bill Manhire who held the post of Poet Laureate from 1998 – 99.

Merwin, who was the country's seventeenth Poet Laureate.

The first Poet Laureate was David Lee who was appointed from January 24, 1997 to December 2002.

* The 2011 novel " The Stranger's Child " by Booker prize winning British novelist Alan Hollinghurst features fictional War Poet Cecil Valance who shares characteristics of, though is not as talented as, Brooke.

Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.

* James Larkin Pearson ( 1879 – 1981 ), poet and newspaper publisher who served as North Carolina's Poet Laureate from 1953 to 1981.

The Siege of Caerlaverock in the XXVIII Edward I ( A. D. MCCC ) with the Arms of the Earls, Barons & Knights who were Present on the Occasion with a Translation, a History of the Castle and Memoirs of the Personages Commemorated by the Poet.

A citizen who became famous in the " wild west " is " Captain Jack " Crawford, ( also known as the " Poet Scout ") western actor, scout for General George Crook's campaign in the Black Hills, native of Carndonagh, Ireland and performer with William F. Cody ( Buffalo Bill ), was postmaster and had a small general store in Girardville in 1869-1874, leaving town to go out west to find Gold.

One of Abercrombie's early projects during this period was to advise Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, on the reformed spelling system he was devising for the publication of his collected essays ( later published in seven volumes by Oxford University Press, with the help of the distinguished typographer Stanley Morison, who designed the new letters ).

He became the Poet Laureate and married the American poet Sylvia Plath who is buried at nearby Heptonstall.

Day-Lewis, who grew up in London, is the son of actress Jill Balcon and Irish-born British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis.

His father, who was of Anglo-Irish background, lived mainly in England from the age of two and later became the United Kingdom's Poet Laureate.

In September 2009, the school had a visit from the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy who gave a speech to pupils from the school and others from the whole of Aberdeenshire.

Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1955, wrote most of his first novel, Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír (" The Great Weaver from Kashmir "), in Taormina which he then praised highly in his book of autobiographical essays, Skáldatími (" The Time of the Poet ", 1963 ).

John Taylor ( 24 August 1578 – 1653 ) was an English poet who dubbed himself " The Water Poet ".

Poet Han Yu ( 韓愈 ) of the Tang Dynasty, for example, wrote to his nephew who came to see him off after his banishment to the Chao Prefecture in his poem, En Route ( 左遷至藍關示姪孫湘 ):

Scottish poets who emerged in the same period included Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as the first Scot to be UK Poet Laureate in May 2009.