Both before and after his Laureateship, he wrote public odes.

She is likely to honor the laureateship in the best way possible: by going on writing poetry.

Like the Laureateship, the role lasts for ten years.

I hope to put my own spin on it, to add my touch to the laureateship.

He will continue to do so while holding down the poet laureateship, which by law pays $35,000 annually.

The laureateship referred to was a degree in rhetoric.

Next day he received from Windsor the offer of the Laureateship.

He has also warned about the havoc the laureateship can wreak on one's own writing.

Barker became a celebrated poet and was offered the laureateship of California, which he declined.

She admired Tennyson for his poetry, not his poet laureateship.

Cibber's elevation to laureateship in 1730 further inflamed Pope against him.

The laureateship takes over your life.

She declared herself ready to tackle the official verse which the laureateship requires, but only if the occasion inspired her.

Petrarch looked at his laureateship as political.

Alfred Lord Tennyson held the poet laureateship for over forty years.

Unlike the Laureateship, it has no fixed duties, but comes with a salary - an annual stipend of £15,000.

He said in a telephone interview that he didn't see the poet laureateship as a bully pulpit.

This wasn't a teaching job or a sinecure - but rather a kind of laureateship that allowed him to concentrate exclusively on composing.

We hear the complaint, every now and then, that official honours are not conferred (except the Laureateship) on men of letters.

"To apply for a poet laureateship is to apply for a Nobel.

When Dryden was dismissed from the laureateship, he made him an equivalent pension from his own purse.

As for Laureate-work, both poets had a chance to make verse job applications long before the Laureateship became vacant.

The Laureateship brought the poet acquainted with the Queen, who was to be his debtor in later days for encouragement and consolation.

Duffy, 53, narrowly missed out on the laureateship to Motion in 1999 after the death of Ted Hughes, who had held the post since 1984.

Governor Richard Wilson Riley changed this some during his term of office, limiting the laureateship to one-year terms.