John Drydan was England's first officially appointed poet laureate.
Dustin
Robin Hamilton wrote:
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> > Listening to Pinkus and Motion, surely the great southern land could claim
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> > voice of its own? What is the history of the laureate?
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> > jh
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> Petrarch, then in England John Skelton as the self-appointed first. I think
> it becomes official round the beginning of the 16th C.
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> Robin Hamilton
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