Category
page 1British poets laureate
Alfred Tennyson
British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)

John Dryden
17th-century English poet and playwright (1631–1700)

Ben Jonson
English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637)
Robert Southey
English romantic poet (1774–1843)
Ted Hughes
English poet and children's writer (1930-1998)
John Masefield
English poet and writer (1878–1967)

Carol Ann Duffy
Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)

John Betjeman
English poet, writer and broadcaster (1906–1984)

Alfred Austin
British writer and poet (1835–1913)

William Davenant
English poet and playwright
Cecil Day-Lewis
Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)
Colley Cibber
British poet laureate (1671–1757)
Thomas Shadwell
English poet and playwright (1642-1692)
Samuel Daniel
Poet and historian
Nahum Tate
Anglo-Irish poet and playwright (1652–1715)
Robert Bridges
British writer (1844-1930)
Thomas Warton
English literary historian, critic, poet (1728-1790)
John Skelton
English poet and tutor (1463-1529)
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1963)
Andrew Motion
poet, novelist and biographer from England (born 1952)
Nicholas Rowe
English poet, writer (1674-1718)
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the prime minister
William Whitehead
British Poet Laureate and playwright (1715–1785)
Henry James Pye
English Poet Laureate (1745-1813)

Laurence Eusden
English poet (1688-1730)