Poet Laureates

Can you name all the UK poet laureates?

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Poem	Life Span	Initials	Answer
Absalom and Achitophel	1631-1700	JD	John Dryden
Dear Pretty Youth	1640-1692	TS	Thomas Shadwell
While shepherds watched their flocks by night	1652-1715	NT	Nahum Tate
The Brave	1674-1718	NR	Nicholas Rowe
The Origin of the Knights of the Bath	1688-1730	LE	Laurence Eusden
The Blind Boy	1671-1757	CC	Colly Cibber
The Je Ne Sais Quoi	1715-1785	WW	William Whitehead
The Pleasures of Melancholy	128-1790	TW	Thomas Warton
Alfred	1745-1813	HJP	Henry James Pye
After Blenheim	1774-1843	RS	Robert Southey
I wandered lonely as a cloud	1770-1850	WW	William Wordsworth

Poem	Life Span	Initials	Answer
The charge of the Light Brigade	1809-1892	A,LT	Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Love's Blindness	1835-1913	AA	Alfred Austin
The Evening Darkens over	1844-1930	RB	Robert Bridges
Renyard the fox	1878-1967	JM	John Masefield
Overture to Death	1904-1972	CD-L	Cecil Day-Lewis
A Shropshire Lad	1906-1984	JB	John Betjeman
Crow	1930-1998	TH	Ted Hughes
Holy island	1952-	AM	Andrew Motion
Havisham	1955-	CAD	Carol Ann Duffy
Chainsaw versus the pampas grass	1963-	SA	Simon Armitage

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