" Victoria's Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote a poem, " Boadicea ," and several ships were named after her.

* 1341: Petrarch, the " Father of Humanism ", becomes the first Poet Laureate since antiquity.

Carol Ann Duffy the first Scottish Poet Laureate.

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.

* 1938 – Charles Simic, Yugoslavian poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States

* 1952 – Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate

John Dryden ( a Tory ), the first Poet Laureate, produced in 1682 Mac Flecknoe, subtitled " A Satire on the True Blue Protestant Poet, T. S.

* Nobel Laureate, Chemist and Poet Roald Hoffmann was named after Amundsen

In 1813 Scott was offered the position of Poet Laureate.

Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.

Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984, following Sir John Betjeman.

Nahum Tate as Poet Laureate had rewritten the tragedy of King Lear with a happy ending.

John Betjeman, the future Poet Laureate, also wrote about her, describing her as " the essence of English girlhood ".

Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate.

* April 25 – Ted Kooser, U. S. Poet Laureate

* June 2 – Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate ( b. 1835 )

* April 22 – Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate

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

* October 20 – Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States

* September – Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of Britain.

( Ben Jonson received a royal pension of 100 marks in 1616, causing some historians to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate, even though John Fletcher was more popular ).

Recent English verse translations include those by British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1963 ) which strove to render Virgil's original hexameter line, Allen Mandelbaum ( honoured by a 1973 National Book Award ), Library of Congress Poet Laureate Robert Fitzgerald ( 1981 ), Stanley Lombardo ( 2005 ), Robert Fagles ( 2006 ), and Sarah Ruden ( 2008 ).

An Act of Congress changed the name of the position in 1985 to Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

U. S. Poets Laureate: Philip Levine was named the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the United States.

He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.

He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.

John Orley Allen Tate ( November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979 ) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress where he served from 1947 until 1948.

" He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1947 − 1948 ( a position now known as the U. S. Poet Laureate ).

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.

He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.

( At the time this title was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress which was changed by Congress in 1985 to Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

* Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress ( United States Poet Laureate ), 1946 – 47

Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1937 and 1941.

In 1985, legislation was finally passed authorizing the position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

From 1995-1997, during Hass's two terms as the US Poet Laureate ( Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress ), he became a champion of literacy, poetry, and ecological awareness.

He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990.

He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress during the 1990 – 1991 term.

* 1990 – 1991: Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress

He was appointed the fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.

He also served as a Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1961 until 1963.

She won every major American award for poetry and was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1992.

Randall Jarrell ( May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965 ) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate.