I go by Dustin, but Joseph is part of my name. Anyway, here are some
good sites to look into -
Not so extensive look at all poet laureates in the UK thus far:
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/OTHERREFERENCE/LITERATURE/PoetLaurt.html
Specific laureates:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/Arts_and_Humanities/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Poets/Poets_Laureate/
US Laureates:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_States/Arts_and_Humanities/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Poets/Poets_Laureate/
On the possibility of a Canadian poet laureate:
http://www.infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/bookswr/bookswr_12222000_poetlaureate.phtml
What is a poet laureate?
http://oh.essortment.com/whatisapoetl_rlwn.htm
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Dustin
Robin Hamilton wrote:
>
> Thanks, Joseph -- I'd meant to write 17thC (I sometimes tangle hundreds
> [1600s] and centuries) -- but I was still out by 50 years!!
>
> But wasn't there a pre-history of "unofficial" laureates? Skelton certainly
> described himself as such, and I think maybe Ben Jonson too. If Dryden was
> the first officially appointed one (under Charles II presumably?), was this
> another French Import, like women actresses?
>
> Robin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dustin Joseph Anderson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: laureate
>
> > John Drydan was England's first officially appointed poet laureate.
> >
> > Dustin
> >
> > Robin Hamilton wrote:
> > >
> > > > Listening to Pinkus and Motion, surely the great southern land could
> claim
> > > a
> > > > voice of its own? What is the history of the laureate?
> > > >
> > > > jh
> > >
> > > Petrarch, then in England John Skelton as the self-appointed first. I
> think
> > > it becomes official round the beginning of the 16th C.
> > >
> > > Robin Hamilton
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