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Poet laureate

noun

A poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary position in a particular group or region. "He is the poet laureate of Arkansas"

The poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain.

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"Poet laureate" Quotes from Famous Books

... helped to spread his fame for at least two generations, and (by Waller's influence on Saint-Evremond) to make him the first English man of letters who was introduced by a great critic of the Continent to continental attention as a worker in the English vernacular. At last he was made Poet Laureate, and in 1618 he took a journey to Scotland, and stayed there for some time with Drummond of Hawthornden. The celebrated conversations noted by the host have been the very centre battle-ground of all fights about ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... the wisdom of drawing the attention of Parliament to the silence of the POET LAUREATE. If he is goaded into breaking it we shall know whom ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 22, 1920 • Various

... peacock-plumes,—the vivid carnation-color of the dais, against which the black and yellow stripes of the tigress showed up in strong and brilliant contrast, . . and the graceful, jewel-decked figure of the Poet Laureate, who, half sitting, half reclining on a black velvet cushion, leaned his handsome head indolently against the silvery folds of Lysia's robe, and looked up at her with eyes in which burned the ardent admiration and scarcely restrained ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... am reading Pindar now and then: I don't much care about him I must say: though I suppose he is the very best writer in the Poet Laureate style: that is, writing on occasion for so much money. I see great merits doubtless—a concise and simple way of saying great things, etc., but the subjects are not interesting enough to me. I suppose a good poet could have celebrated Dutch Sam {57} as having been ...

— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald

Words linked to "Poet laureate" : laureate, poet