POETS LAUREATE

Domain	Definition
Literature	Poets Laureate appointed by letters patent. Appointed. Buried. BEN JONSON 1615-6 Westminster Abbey. SIR WM. DAVENANT (!) 1638 Westminster Abbey. JOHN DRYDEN 1670 Westminster Abbey. THOMAS SHADWELL (!) 1688 NAHUM TATE (!) 1692 NICHOLAS ROWE 1715 Westminster Abbey. LAWRENCE EUSDEN (!) 1718 COLLEY CIBBER 1730 WILLIAM WHITEHEAD (!) 1757 THOMAS WARTON 1785 HENRY JAMES PYE (!) 1790 ROBERT SOUTREY 1813 WM. WORDSWORTH 1843 ALFRED TENNYSON (Lord) 1850 Westminster Abbey. The following are sometimes included, though not appointed by letters patent: - Chaucer, Gower, John Key, Bernard, Skelton, Rob. Whittington, Richard Edwards, Spenser, and Sam. Daniel. (!) Five of the fourteen known only by their names. Three others quite third-rate poets. The remaining five were distinguished men. A poet laureate is one who has received a laurel crown. There were at one time "doctors laureate," "bachelors laureate," etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: POETS LAUREATE

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	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-l-o-p-r-s-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: epaulettes.
	-4 letters: apetalous, epaulette, laureates, operettas, palestrae, pastorale, pastorate, poetaster, postulate, roulettes, saltpeter, spatulate, sporulate, superette, teleports, toeplates, tolerates.
	-5 letters: aerostat, alertest, apostate, apterous, areolate, asperate, aureolae, aureolas, aureoles, eelpouts, epaulets, laureate, lustrate, oleaster, operates, operetta, outleaps, outleapt, outrates, outsleep, outslept, outspelt, outstare, outsteer, palestra, paletots, palettes, parolees, partlets, pastoral, pastural, peartest, petalous.
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