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The Origin of the Office of Poet Laureate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Walter Hamilton Esq.
Affiliation:
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Historical Society

Extract

In a recently published work the author has presented biographical details of the Poets Laureate of England; the object of this paper is to place before the Royal Historical Society in a concise form all the reliable information he has obtained as to the origin of the office. From the appointment of Chaucer about five hundred years have elapsed, and during that period a long line of poets have held the title of Laureate. For the first two hundred years they were somewhat irregularly appointed, but from the creation of Richard Edwards in 1561, they come down to the present time without interruption.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1880

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