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...life than for her works. Her poems describing the explorations and exploits of Captain Cook receive less consideration from Miss Ashmun than her meetings with Walter Scott; Dr. Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar note pass across the background of "The Singing Swan." Boswell, to whom she gave much scandal about the great doctor, Garrick, Reynolds, Coleridge, and Adam Smith...
...MacDonald decided last week that the very man for Laureate is a person whom Queen Victoria would certainly not have considered fit for admission to the royal household (her Laureates were Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austin...
...Poet. The Testament of Beauty is dedicated by the Poet Laureate to his King. Hitherto the Bridges Laureateship has been characterized by inactivity. Of all the line of laureates (which has included Dryden, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of £72, and £27 in lieu of a butt of Canary wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited...
Professor Greenough has presented two volumes to the Library: a rare French work and a second edition of the poems of Robert Southey, dated...
...capacity, and it was not until 1670, two years after Sir William's death, that Dryden became the first to hold the official title of Poet Laureate, an appointment that has continued to the present day. Poets Laureate since Dryden: Shadwell, Tate, Rowe, Eusden, Cibber, Whitehead, Warton, Pye, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austin, Bridges...