- the
holder will
write verse for
significant national occasions. The
laureateship dates to 1616 when a
pension was
provided to Ben Jonson, but the first...
- biographer, who was Poet
Laureate from 1999 to 2009.
During the
period of his
laureateship,
Motion founded the
Poetry Archive, an
online resource of
poems and audio...
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William Wordsworth (7
April 1770 – 23
April 1850) was an
English Romantic poet who, with
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
helped to
launch the
Romantic Age in...
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Julia Catherine Donaldson CBE (née Shields; born 16
September 1948) is an
English writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is...
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disabilities and illustration. The aim of the
Waterstones Children's
Laureateship is to
celebrate and
promote creativity and storytelling, and to inspire...
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youngest recipient to date. He was also
sounded out for the
British Poet
Laureateship and
several times for a knighthood, but
declined both.
Following his...
-
awarded a
Clarkson Laureateship,
including Ursula Franklin,
William Davis, and Mary Eberts. The
awarding of
Clarkson Laureateships was
approved by the...
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social and
political opportunism that was
thought to have
gained him the
laureateship over far
better poets. He rose to
ignominious fame when he
became the...
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Ennis Samuel Rees, Jr. (March 17, 1925 –
March 24, 2009) was an
American poet and professor. He was
named by
Governor Richard Wilson Riley as the third...
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Bennie Lee
Sinclair (April 15, 1939 – May 22, 2000) was an
American poet, novelist, and
short story writer. She was
named by
Governor Richard Wilson Riley...
