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
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
1906 John Betjeman, poet laureate of England, Mt 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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