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Poets Laureate of England

Edmund Spenser 1591–1599
Samuel Daniel 1599–1619
Ben Jonson 1619–1637
William Davenant 1638–1668
John Dryden1 1668–1689
Thomas Shadwell 1689–1692
Nahum Tate 1692–1715
Nicholas Rowe 1715–1718
Laurence Eusden 1718–1730
Colley Cibber 1730–1757
William Whitehead 1757–1785
Thomas Warton 1785–1790
Henry James Pye 1790–1813
Robert Southey 1813–1843
William Wordsworth 1843–1850
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1850–1892
Alfred Austin 1896–1913
Robert Bridges 1913–1930
John Masefield 1930–1967
Cecil Day-Lewis 1967–1972
Sir John Betjeman 1972–1984
Ted Hughes 1984–1998
Andrew Motion1999–
1. First to bear the title officially.

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