It is not quite pleasant to think that the well-merited but comparatively accidental distinction of the Laureateship perhaps did more even for Tennyson in this respect than the intrinsic value of his work.
Wordsworth's appointment to the Laureateship was significant in more ways than one.
Thomas Shadwell is remarkable as the leading Whig votary of belles lettres after the death of Marvell, a distinction which secured him the laureateship upon the cashiering of Dryden.
Soon afterwards the unsoundness of the foundation on which he had built his fortunes was demonstrated by the Revolution, which deprived him of the laureateship and swept away all official sources of income.
Judges of Award for the Laureateshipcontests have been appointed as follows: Poetry, Mr. Nixon Waterman, a New-England bard who needs no introduction to the lover of lofty and graceful expression.
Mrs. Jordan's poetry is of a tunefully delicate and highly individualistic sort which has placed it in great demand amongst amateur editors, and it is not unlikely that the author may be rewarded with a Laureateship at no distant date.
The comparative scarcity of entries makes imperative a second warning regarding the new conditions in the Laureateship department.
Our latest innovation is a laureateship for the best home-printed paper, which will excite keen rivalry among our younger members, and bring out some careful specimens of the typographical art.
The touching story of Savage had won the heart of the Queen, and she had extracted from the King the promise of the Laureateship for its hero.
His real claims consisted in having spent a fortune in electioneering for ministers; and these claims being pressed with unusual urgency at the moment of Warton's death, he was offered the Laureateship as satisfaction in part.
To his Laureateship we owe, among other good things, the stately and moving Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, a splendid heroic piece, unappreciated at the moment.
The Laureateship brought the poet acquainted with the Queen, who was to be his debtor in later days for encouragement and consolation.
It is a large exaggeration I do not doubt--and then I never sympathised with the sighing kept up by people about that acceptance of the Laureateship which drew the bag-wig as a corollary after it.
Not that the Laureateship honoured him, but that he honoured it; and that, so honouring it, he preserves a symbol instructive to the masses, who are children and to be taught by symbols now as formerly.
Of these dramatic productions of Dryden during the first ten years of his laureateship some were very carefully written.
Bound by his agreement with the King's Company to furnish three plays a-year, he continued to make dramatic writing his chief occupation; and almost his sole productions during the first ten years of his laureateship were ten plays.
He was but twenty-two years of age when Dryden became laureate; but before ten years of that laureateship were over he had blazed out, in rapid debauchery, his wretchedly-spent life.
The laureateship remained vacant two years after Davenant's death; and then it was conferred--on whom?
Shadwell, coarse and fat as ever, enjoyed the laureateship till his death in 1692, when Nahum Tate was appointed to succeed him.
The laureateship marked only one of several changes in Cibber's life.
One view is that the laureateship triggered the alteration, but while it is true that Cibber was one of the worst versifiers ever to wear the bays, that honor had been conferred in 1730, thirteen years before the last Dunciad.
Sir William Davenant, who recovered the laureateshipat the Restoration, and retained it till his death in 1668, was succeeded by Dryden.
At his death, the laureateship was offered to Gray, with an exemption from the duty of furnishing annual odes, but he refused the office, as having been degraded by Cibber.
On the demise of Whitehead in 1785, the laureateship was conferred on him by command of George the Third.
The appointment made, Francis again wrote to the point:-- "What a pity you could not uphold the dignity of the Laureateship in the eyes of Europe.
When the Laureateship fell vacant Patmore wrote to the Saturday Review proposing my mother's name.
The Laureateship was offered to me in the most flattering terms, by the Lord Chamberlain, of course with the approbation of the Queen; but I declined it on account of my advanced age.
I took the journey to London solely to pay my respects to the Queen upon my appointment to the Laureateship upon the decease of my friend Mr. Southey.
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