John Kay (poet)

John Kay was a fifteenth-century English poet who described himself as the versificator regis (which would develop into the position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom) to Edward IV of England.[1][2] If it ever existed, none of his poetic work remains.[3]

References

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh (1911). "Laureate". Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. 16. The Encyclopædia Britannica Co.. pp. 282. http://books.google.com/books?id=2L1kDVXqh_wC&pg=PA282. Retrieved 2010-02-04. 
  2. ^ Howland, Frances Louise Morse (1895). The laureates of England: Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson. Frederick A. Stokes. http://books.google.com/books?id=cF0RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR19. Retrieved 4 February 2010. 
  3. ^ "English Poets Laureate: First Versifier to Hold the Office was John Kay". The Pittsburgh Press. 17 February 1902. pp. 7. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=khEbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nUgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5958,2933071&dq=john-kay+versificator&hl=en. Retrieved 4 February 2010.