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City Poet
City Poet n. (also with lower-case initials) British (now historical) a name given to a poet appointed to write pageants for the Lord Mayor of London; cf. pageant poet n. at pageant n. and adj. Compounds 2.By the late 17th cent. the role of City Poet was seen as a semi-formal office, of which the last known holder was Elkanah Settle (1648–1724).
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City Poet1607
poet-in-ordinary1704
poet-in-residence1927
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe iii. i. sig. E3 I care not greatly because I haue a Citty Laundresse already, if I get a Citty Poet too.
1640 H. Glapthorne Wit in Constable i. i. sig. B1v Perchance you may arrive to be the City Poet, And find the little moysture of your braine To grace a Lord Maiors festivall with showes.
1682 T. D'Urfey Royalist iv. i. 39 A Speech made to my Lord Mayor, Penn'd by the City Poet, and spoke upon a Pageant.
1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) i. 88 (note) The Pageants..being..at length abolished, the employment of City Poet ceas'd.
1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 97 Settle was..made the city poet, whose annual office was to describe the glories of the Mayor's day. Of these bards he was the last.
1843 Old Fellows' Q. Mag. Oct. 418 In 1622, Thomas Middleton was made city poet.
1995 J. P. Montaño in G. MacLean Culture & Soc. Stuart Reformation ii. 40 1671 marks the debut of Thomas Jordan as City poet.
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