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First official poet laureate of Britain
John Dryden, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery,...
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Ben Jonson
English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic Ben Jonson was...
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First official poet laureate of the United States
Robert Penn Warren, c. 1970.
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Amanda Gorman
American poet Amanda Gorman reciting her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the presidential...
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