A poet laureate is a poet appointed by a government or monarch to receive formal recognition for their work. The position can be traced back to Ancient Greece, and the first English poet laureate was appointed in 1668. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the years, the role of poet laureate has evolved, and today it often includes other responsibilities such as acting as an ambassador for poetry and literature. Here’s a look at the history of English poet laureates.<\/p>\n\n\n
John Dryden<\/a> (1668\u201389) A poet laureate is a poet appointed by a government or monarch to receive formal recognition for their work. The position can be traced back to Ancient Greece, and the first English poet laureate was appointed in 1668. Over the years, the role of poet laureate has evolved, and today it often includes other responsibilities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThomas Shadwell (1689\u201392)
\nNahum Tate (1692\u20131715)
\nNicholas Rowe (1715\u201318)
\nLaurence Eusden (1718\u201330)
\nColley Cibber (1730\u201357)
\nWilliam Whitehead (1757\u201385)
\nThomas Warton (1785\u201390)
\nHenry James Pye (1790\u20131813)
\nRobert Southey<\/a> (1813\u201343)
\nWilliam Wordsworth<\/a> (1843\u201350)
\nAlfred, Lord Tennyson <\/a>(1850\u201392)
\nAlfred Austin (1896\u20131913)
\nRobert Bridges (1913\u201330)
\nJohn Masefield (1930\u201367)
\nCecil Day-Lewis (1968\u201372)
\nSir John Betjeman (1972\u201384)
\nTed Hughes (1984\u201398)
\nAndrew Motion (1999\u20132009)
\nCarol Ann Duffy (2009\u201319)
\nSimon Armitage (2019\u2013 )<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"