Poet prize winner
With the the United Kingdom, the poet prize winner ( Poet Prize winner in English) is the official Poète of the monarch. Traditionally, one awaited from him that it composes of the poems at the time of various official celebrations.
This term exists in England, Great Britain and with the the United Kingdom as a whole since centuries: the title was officially instituted at the time of Charles II, while being then formalized by lettre de cachets (in other words, mandates) signed by the king, but the function existed already before in a less formal way. In the beginning, the poet prize winner was appointed for life, but the duration of the function was recently reduced to ten years. It receives today still wages symbolic system, in its membership of the royal court but, since 1843, it does not have any more any specific duty in term of production of poetry.
List poets prizes winner in the history
The Middle Ages
- Gulielmus Peregrinus, employed by Richard Lion-hearted
- Master Henry, named under Versificator Governed , or Poet of the king , by Henri III (according to Thomas Warton)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 - 1400)
- John Kay under the reign of Edouard IV, 1461 - 1483
Tudor
- Bernard André of Toulouse (1450-1522), author of Vita governed Henrici Septimi , designated itself as poet prize winner under Henri VII
- John Skelton, poet prize winner under Henri VIII
- Edmund Spenser, died in 1599
Stuart
After the death of Edmund Spenser, the title was allotted on a more regular basis. Once indicated, the poet prize winner preserved his function at life. He perceived an annual pension, and was to write poetry on request, at the time of formal occasions.- 1619 Ben Jonson
- 1637 Sir William D' Avenant (godson of William Shakespeare)
Named by lettre de cachets
- 1670 John Dryden
- 1689 Thomas Shadwell
- 1692 Nahum Touches
- 1715 Nicholas Rowe
- 1718 Reverend Laurence Eusden
- 1730 Colley Cibber
- 1757 William Whitehead, on refusal of Thomas Gray
- 1785 Reverend Thomas Warton, on refusal of William Mason
- 1790 Henry James Pye
- 1813 Robert Southey, on refusal of Sir Walter Scott
- 1843 William Wordsworth
- 1850 Lord Alfred Tennyson
- 1896 Alfred Austin, on refusal of William Morris
- 1913 Robert Bridges
- 1930 John Masefield, OM
- 1967 Cecil Day-Lewis, OEB
- 1972 Sir John Betjeman, OEB
- 1984 Ted Hughes, OM (widowed of Sylvia Plath), on refusal of Philip Larkin
- 1999 Andrew Motion
Scotland and Wales
The Scots Makar is the equivalent not remunerated of the Poet Laureate , and it has as a function to represent and promote poetry in Scotland. The professor Edwin Morgan was named at this station the February 16th 2004.In February 2005, the Wales announced its intention to have its own national poet, who will be remunerated by a price of 5000 £.