Poet Laureates of English Literature

POET LAUREATES

1. John Dryden (1668-89)
2. Thomas Shadwell (1689-92)
3. Nahum Tate (1692-1715)
4. Nicholas Rowe (1715-18)
5. Laurence Eusden (1718-30)
6. Colley Cibber (1730-57)
7. William Whitehead (1757-85)
8. Thomas Warton (1785-90)
9. Henry James Pye (1790-1813)
10. Robert Southey (1813-43)
11. William Wordsworth (1843-50)
12. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1850-92)
13. Alfred Austen (1896-1913)
14. Robert Bridges (1913-30)
15. John Mansfield (1930-67)
16. Cecil Day Lewis (1968-72)
17. Sir John Betjeman (1972-84)
18. Ted Hughes (1984-98)
19. Andrew Motion (1999-2009)