alfred austin andrew motion apollo baccalaureate ben jonson bill manhire billy collins canadian parliamentary poet laureate catholic university of leuven cecil day-lewis charles ii of england charles simic city of london colley cibber donald hall edmund spenser edward gibbon edward iv of england edwin morgan elizabeth bishop england esperantujo geoffrey chaucer gwyneth lewis hanns johst henry iii of england henry i of england henry james pye henry viii of england henry vii of england hone tuwhare james i of england jenny bornholdt john dryden john masefield john skelton joseph brodsky kannadasan karl shapiro kay ryan laurel wreath laurence eusden library of congress library of parliament makar mark strand michele leggott nahum tate national poet for wales nazi germany order of the british empire petrarch philip larkin plural poet poet laureate consultant in poetry to the library of congress rhetoric richard i of england rita dove robert bridges robert frost robert hass robert penn warren robert pinsky robert southey samuel daniel scotland stanley kunitz tamil nadu ted hughes ted kooser thomas gray thomas shadwell thomas warton united states university of cambridge walter scott william auld william davenant william morris william shakespeare william whitehead william wordsworth