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

↑ Chisholm, Hugh (1911). "Laureate". Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition 16. The Encyclopædia Britannica Co. p. 282. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
↑ Howland, Frances Louise Morse (1895). The laureates of England: Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson. Frederick A. Stokes. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
↑ "English Poets Laureate: First Versifier to Hold the Office was John Kay". The Pittsburgh Press. 17 February 1902. p. 7. Retrieved 4 February 2010.

Poets laureate of the United Kingdom

John Dryden (1668–88)
Thomas Shadwell (1689–92)
Nahum Tate (1692–1715)
Nicholas Rowe (1715–18)
Laurence Eusden (1718–30)
Colley Cibber (1730–57)
William Whitehead (1757–85)
Thomas Warton (1785–90)
Henry James Pye (1790–1813)
Robert Southey (1813–43)
William Wordsworth (1843–50)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1850–92)
Alfred Austin (1896–1913)
Robert Bridges (1913–30)
John Masefield (1930–67)
Cecil Day-Lewis (1968–72)
John Betjeman (1972–84)
Ted Hughes (1984–98)
Andrew Motion (1999–2009)
Carol Ann Duffy (2009–)

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