Noun : a Nobel laureate. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : poet laureate; conjurer laureate. ,the laureate men of science. From Dictionary.com.
ADVERTISEMENT bination of scathing wit, cheeky rhyme and revenge poems might be the perfect tonic for the failing institution (the laureateship, that is, not royalty per se). From Wordnik.com. Reference
Except that he Simon Armitage didn't get the laureateship. From Wordnik.com. [News at Eleven: Success, for a poet, just doesn't come bigger.] Reference
I perceive that I have not noticed the poet's laureateship. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
Prince, and the author of "Kate Kearney" divided the laureateship of society and song with Tom Moore. '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
News at Eleven: Carol Ann Duffy has said that she accepted the laureateship on behalf of all women poets. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Patricia Gray, the head of the Library's Poetry and Literature Center, describes the laureateship as an "iconic" position. From Wordnik.com. [July 2008] Reference
Great Regulars: Some seem unable to realise that the laureateship is not primarily an opportunity for personal advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
This, we will recall, is the same canard that cost Amiri Baraka the poet laureateship of the US (and which he, like Fetzer, refuses to retract). From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: The "4,000 Jews Forewarned" Nonsense Again] Reference
The prize was set up two years ago by the author Michael Rosen as part of his children's laureateship, and seeks to celebrate the books that make children laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Louise Rennison has last laugh by winning Roald Dahl funny prize] Reference
He declined the laureateship after Cibber's death. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
"I love the way she is re-inventing the laureateship.". From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
He declined the laureateship on the death of Wordsworth (1850). From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
He lived to be offered the laureateship in 1850, on the death of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
It would be lovely if the offer of laureateship were made by liveried page. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Motion, caricatured during his time in the laureateship as "Pelvic Motion" by the. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Carol Ann Duffy is telling me about her decision to accept the poet laureateship. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
If the laureateship ever went, an important symbol of that truth would have gone, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
"For various reasons I pretty much stopped writing in the middle part of my laureateship," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Your Local Guardian | Wimbledon] Reference
Shadwell had, by and by, his revenge, by obtaining the laureateship, after the Revolution, in room of. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
How potently the Civil List and the laureateship have helped a long, if most uneven, line of England's singers. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyful Heart] Reference
After he became famous the laureateship was offered to him, but his dislike of publicity caused him to refuse it. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Five English Poets] Reference
The Oxford University role is regarded as one of the most influential in UK poetry behind that of the laureateship. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Even Philip Larkin, who turned down the laureateship ( "Mrs T was very nice about my not wanting it"), was tempted by the. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Theirs is a profoundly English poetics which, as Duffy assumes the laureateship, takes on a "national" identity in a new way. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Surely it is inevitable that the laureateship would leave no room for the muse, or inspiration, or whatever you wish to call it. From Wordnik.com. [Avoiding the Muse] Reference
That the British state has a laureateship at all is one of the few concessions it makes to the importance of the arts in society. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Nevertheless he had, on the death of Colley Cibber, the offer of the laureateship, which he declined; but in 1768 he accepted the. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
When he succeeded to the laureateship he was proud to remember that the wreath which had descended to him was greener from the brows. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
While five poets assumed the laureateship under the administrative partnership of Te Mata Estate and the International Institute of Modern. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Movie Review: ‘Couples Retreat’ trips, fails to advance Comedy: Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau unable to ...] Reference
I include him not as a forgotten recipient, but as an unlikely recipient -- indeed, a recipient whose laureateship seems in extremely poor taste. From Wordnik.com. [Politics Daily] Reference
It will be seen from this that independently of the appointment of the laureateship, Dryden had in or before the year 1679 received an additional pension of £100 a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference
Only think how far more resplendent might have been her history had the Court of St. James's continued and developed the institution of the jester and let the laureateship go. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
1850, spring in Rome; proposal to confer poet-laureateship on. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
Old Cibber's soliciting the laureateship for. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
He was offered, but declined, the laureateship. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
1741, where in 1768 he was made professor of Modern History; refused the laureateship in 1757; published his "Elegy. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II] Reference
Gray, T., on laureateship, compared to Hodgson, compared to Masters. From Wordnik.com. [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference
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