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1998 Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95
1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate 1991 Howard Nemerow, U.S. poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies 1987 New York Richard Wilbur appointed as U.S. poet laureate 1985 Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st) 1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate 1957 Langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies 1952 Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993 1930 Ted Hughes, British poet laureate 1930 Ted Hughes, England, poet laureate, 1984- 1930 Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 1921 Richard Wilbur, 2nd U.S. Poet Laureate, Ceremony, Walking to Sleep 1920 Howard Nemerov, U.S., 3rd U.S. poet laureate and novelist, Blue Swallows 1913 Claude Simon, born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, writer, prize-winning author, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature, identified with the nouveau roman movement 1906 John Betjeman, poet laureate of England, Mount Zion 1906 John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984, Mount Zion 1905 Robert Penn Warren, 1st U.S. poet laureate, All the King's Men 1904 Cecil Day-Lewis, England, poet laureate/detective, Nicholas Blake 1878 John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate, Salt-Water Ballads 1850 Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate 1844 Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate, Eros and Psyche 1842 Ina Donna Coolbrith, U.S., poet laureate of California 1835 Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England, Garden 1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England 1774 Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson 1770 William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate, Prelude 1728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England, Pleasures of Melancholy 1715 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies 1674 Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate, Jane Shore, Tamerlane 1671 Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate, Love's Last Shift 1668 John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate 1631 John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England, All for Love |
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