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Poets with tag Laureate:

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, who is often expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. The Italians Albertino Mussato and Francesco Petrarca were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age, respectively in 1315 and 1342. In Britain, the term dates from the appointment of Bernard André by Henry VII of England. In modern times, the title may also be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which has a designated Children's Poet Laureate. Other examples are the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, which is designated by a "Presenting Partners" group from within the community; the Minnesota Poet Laureate chosen by the League of Minnesota Poets (est. 1934); the Northampton Poet Laureate chosen by the Northampton Arts Council, and the Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate chosen by ten judges representing the Martha's Vineyard Poetry Society.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Geoffrey Chaucer	1340-1400	ENG	Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Medieval, Slavery, Vernacular	61	38
Edmund Spenser	1552-1599	ENG	Elizabethan, Fantasy, Gothic, Laureate, Renaissance, Sonnet	171	100
Samuel Daniel	1562-1620	ENG	Sonnet, Laureate, Elizabethan	68	188
Ben Jonson	1572-1637	ENG	Blank verse, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Laureate, Renaissance	93	118
John Dryden	1631-1700	ENG	Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Laureate, Satire	104	285
Robert Burns	1759-1796	SCO	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Freemasons, Laureate, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Song, Vernacular	119	31
William Wordsworth	1770-1850	ENG	Blank verse, Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet	357	10
Robert Southey	1774-1843	ENG	Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery	96	216
Alfred Lord Tennyson	1809-1892	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Romanticism, Spasmodic, Victorian, War	180	16
Alfred Austin	1835-1913	ENG	Laureate, Victorian	244	125
Robert Frost	1874-1963	USA	Blank verse, Didactism, Dymock poets, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism, National, Optimism, Realism, Sonnet, Vernacular	144	1
John Masefield	1878-1967	ENG	Children, Laureate	46	89
Conrad Potter Aiken	1889-1973	USA	Laureate, Playwright	98	299
Louise Bogan	1897-1970	USA	Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Laureate	27	207
Allen Tate	1899-1979	USA	Formalism, Fugitives, Laureate, Modernism, Southern Agrarians	74	260
John Betjeman	1906-1984	ENG	Blank verse, Laureate	53	251
Stephen Spender	1909-1995	ENG	Auden Group, Formalism, Laureate	17	352
Elizabeth Bishop	1911-1979	USA	Didactism, Feminism, Laureate, Modernism	69	68
Robert Hayden	1913-1980	AFR/USA	Didactism, Harlem Renaissance, Laureate, Modernism	14	195
William Stafford	1914-1993	USA	Laureate	38	146
Randall Jarrell	1914-1965	USA	Bipolar disorder, Children, Formalism, Fugitives, Laureate, Modernism, Neoromanticism, War	28	250
Robert Lowell	1917-1977	USA	Bipolar disorder, Confessionalism, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism	20	160
Howard Nemerov	1920-1991	USA	Formalism, Laureate	38	349
Yehuda Amichai	1924-2000	ISR	Vernacular, Laureate, Philosophy	43	193
Ted Hughes	1930-1998	ENG	Children, Confessionalism, Laureate, The Movement	33	87
Derek Walcott	1930-	LCA	Confessionalism, Formalism, Gothic, Imagism, Laureate, Methodism, National, Spiritualism, Surrealism	21	106
Joseph Brodsky	1940-1996	RUS/USA	Akhmatova Orphans, Philosophy, Laureate	35	182
Billy Collins	1941-	USA	Beat, Humour, Laureate, Optimism	10	66

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