How To Use Poet laureate In A Sentence
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From this exalted perch, the poet laureate is charged with bringing poetry to the forefront of the American consciousness, as well as playing consultant to the Library of Congress — which includes giving a reading at the beginning of the term and a lecture or reading at end of term, organizing monthly readings and overseeing the Library's poetry fellowships and prizes.
Paid Poet
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Magazine '"(March 15, 1820), as the author of' Wat Tyler 'and poet laureate, the man who "wrote treason and serves the King," the ex-pantisocrat who advocated "all things, including women, in common.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
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she is the poet laureate of all lyricists
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The early poetry of Ted Hughes, the last English Poet Laureate of the twentieth century, is well known for its masculine and wild style.
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Morris wrote endlessly and was even offered the post of poet laureate.
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The poet laureate's role is not new to him as he has been the laureate of Glasgow, where he has lived most of his life and was Professor of English until retiring in 1980.
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He is the 14 th poet laureate of the United States and received many awards.
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Minnesota's first poet laureate, Margarette Ball Dickson, crowned herself queen bee of poesy in 1934.
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Having meditated on the fact that Minnesota wants for a poet laureate proper, City Pages decided to do our bit to remedy that lack.
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Indeed in 1892, when it was necessary to appoint a new Poet Laureate, Queen Victoria is reported to have said to Gladstone: ‘I am told that Mr Swinburne is the best poet in my dominions.’
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the poet laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions
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And even though I reject Amiri Baraka's hairbrained, "truther" talk about 9/11, the fact that he was speaking from the perch of the poet who was serving in a public role as poet laureate of New Jersey lent obvious weight to his cockamamie nonsense.
Why Aren't Poets More Politically Active?
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Thus the most outstanding poet always desires to be made a poet laureate.
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Carol Ann Duffy (see photo), 53, has been named Britain's new Poet Laureate and has become the first openly gay woman to be appointed to the post in its 341-year history.
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Later he became poet laureate of the United States.
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Dryden had in truth done little but translate the play from the French, and the language felt patchy at best his new post of Poet Laureate—he took over when Will Davenant died—has made him neglectful of his playhouse duties.
Exit the Actress
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Nelson has served as poet laureate for four years, with one-year remaining to fulfill her term.
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It took Britain 341 years to name a woman to the highly-prestigious but low-paid post of poet laureate, but Carol Ann Duffy, the first female and the first openly bisexual holder of the post as well, has made up for lost time.
Bitter About Pay, Poet Laureate Strikes Catty Tone
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Shelley's conversations with Southey at this time would have major consequences for the rest of his career; imagining the nineteen-year-old radical visiting the author of Joan of Arc and Wat Tyler two years before Southey's appointment as poet laureate and finding him comfortably settled into Toryism is one of the keys to understanding Shelley's evolving relationship to first-generation romanticism.
Young Shelley
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Former U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan ("The Best of It") and prize-winning poet-translator Anne Carson ("Nox") were poetry finalists, along with Kathleen Graber's "The Eternal City," Terrance Hayes'"Lighthead" and C.D.
Nominees Revealed For Prestigious Book Awards
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The visiting literati included the poet laureate Ted Hughes and his wife, Sylvia Plath.
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The winner of the award will be announced by the 2008-2009 Poet Laureate and Chair of the Museums Libraries and Archives Council, Andrew Motion, on 15 July 2009 at CILIP's biennial Umbrella 2009 conference, held at The DeHavilland Campus, University of Herfordshire in Hatfield
CILIP Libraries Change Lives Award 2009 finalists
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Former U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan ("The Best of It") and prize-winning poet-translator Anne Carson ("Nox") were poetry finalists, along with Kathleen Graber's "The Eternal City," Terrance Hayes' "Lighthead" and C.D.
Nominees Revealed For Prestigious Book Awards
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Wordsworth enters St John's, and publishes his first poem. He later became Poet Laureate.
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A talk among three former U.S. poet laureates, and the current laureate was especially telling.
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The interesting thing is that he wrote this nonsense in October 2001-months before New Jersey officials appointed him their Poet Laureate.
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Andrew Motion has been sounded out, but has declared himself uninterested at present while he remains Poet Laureate.
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Fran Landesman is still the poet laureate of lovers and losers: her songs are the secret diaries of the desperate and the decadent.
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A panel accompanying a report on the search for a Scottish poet laureate, the makar, anticipated the decision of the judges of the 2010 TS Eliot prize, due on 24 January.
Corrections and clarifications
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She was appointed poet laureate of Illinois in 1968 and has been perhaps more active than many laureates.
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He was excellently placed to be the next Poet Laureate when the position fell vacant in ninety-six.
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The ‘shadow poet laureate’ places himself in the tradition of great anti-establishment poets like Byron, Shelley and Blake.
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Young (a local schoolteacher who was recently named the Poet Laureate of Alexandria) that treat each letter of the alphabet to playful and urbane snatches of verse (reminiscent of Ogden Nash at his airiest), and video projections designed by Wendall K. Harrington.
In performance: 21st Century Consort
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The New Jersey State Senate voted last week to eliminate its statewide Poet Laureate position.
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he is the poet laureate of Arkansas
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Bayes is shown debating whether he shall betake himself to the church, or gaming, or party-writing, but is carried off by the goddess and anointed king in the place of Eusden, the poet laureate, who has died.
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In today's ecological crisis, British Poet Laureate-Ted Hughes, makes his persistent poetic pursuit of the re-establishment of the harmony between humans and nature.
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Andrew Motion has been sounded out, but has declared himself uninterested at present while he remains Poet Laureate.
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The late English Poet Laureate - Ted Hughes mainsequence Crow tells how the protagonist grows to maturity.
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Nelson has served as poet laureate for four years, with one-year remaining to fulfill her term.
