Here are posts labelled "UK Poet Laureate" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: William Wordsworth
- Birth: April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, England, UK
- Death: April 23, 1850, Cumberland, England, UK
- Language: English
- Who he was: English poet; Lyrical Ballads; Poems in Two Volumes; The Excursion; The Prelude; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland (1770–1850)
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC; LRP; Bloom; GC
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Just the Facts:
- Name: John Dryden
- Birth: August 9, 1631, Aldwincle, England, UK
- Death: May 12, 1700, London, England, UK
- Language: English
- Who he was: English poet and playwright; poems Absalom and Achitophel, Mac Flecknoe, The Hind and the Panther; Religio Laici; plays Marriage à la mode and All for Love; first Poet Laureate of the UK
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC; Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
- Known as: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Birth: August 6, 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, UK
- Death: October 6, 1892, Lurgashall, UK
- Language: English
- Who he was: English poet who wrote Idylls of the King; "Ulysses"; "Tithonus"; "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; "Crossing the Bar"; Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland (1809-1892)
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC; Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Edward James Hughes
- Known as: Ted Hughes
- Birth: August 17, 1930, Mytholmroyd, UK
- Death: October 28, 1998, London, UK
- Language: English
- Who he was: English poet and children's writer who wrote poems The Hawk in the Rain; Crow; Birthday Letters; prose Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being; for children The Iron Man (The Iron Giant); Poet Laureate of the UK (1984-1998)
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
