单词 | poet laureate |
释义 | poet laureaten. Originally: an eminent or distinguished poet, thought worthy of the laurel crown of the Muses (later sometimes used as an honorific title conferred by certain universities). In modern use usually (with capital initials): (the title given to) a poet appointed as an officer of the Royal Household, to write poetry for court and national occasions. Also in extended use: a poet with comparable functions elsewhere.The first Poet Laureate in the modern sense was Ben Jonson, but the title was first officially given to John Dryden in 1668. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > title of eminent poet poet laureatea1456 laureatea1529 arch-poet1610 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > title of eminent poet > as member of Royal Household laureatea1677 poet laureate1686 laureateship1732 a1456 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 696 (MED) Ovyde..And Fraunceys Petrark, myrour of eloquence, Iohan Bocas also..Þey called weren poetes laureate. 1490 (title) The dylectable newesse..of the gloryous victorye of the Rhodyans agaynst the Turkes. Translated from the Latin of G. Caoursin by Johan Kaye (Poete Lawreate). c1500 (a1449) J. Lydgate Isopes Fabules (Trin. Cambr.) 8 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 566 (MED) Þe poete laureate Callyd Isopus. c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cxcvii Gowere and Chaucere..Superlative as poetis laureate. a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 128 At Oxforth, the vniversyte, Auaunsid I was to that degre; By hole consent of theyr senate, I was made poete lawreate. 1601 A. Munday Downfall Earle of Huntington sig. D2 Poets Laureate, Whose verse did decorate, And their lines lustrate Both Prince and Potentate. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. lix. 117 Apollo..created him Prince-Poet, and..gave him the Royal Ensigns used to be given to Poets Laureat. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 275 Robert Whittington..was a great Grammarian, Poet laureat of Oxford, and Protovates Angliæ. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 255 Sir Will. D'avenant, sometimes Laureat Poet to the said King. 1730 A. Pope Of Poet Laureate in Grub-St. Jrnl. 19 Nov. The title of Archi-poeta, or Arch-poet, in the style of those days, in ours, Poet Laureate. 1750 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. i, in Wks. I. 38 The Election of..a Poet Laureate, to the Goddess of Nonsense. 1843 A. Dyce in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. I. p. xv There would..be no doubt that Skelton was..poet laureat or court poet to Henry the Eighth, if [etc.]. 1884 Punch 16 Feb. 76/1 This comes of gallivanting round with Emperors, Kings, Prime Ministers, and Poet-Laureates. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 103/1 It [sc. a committee] consisted of four academicians: Chapelain, then considered the poet laureate of France [etc.]. 1990 J. Halperin Novelists in their Youth ii. 75 Hardy always..stuck up for the controversial Swinburne, unhesitatingly recommending his appointment as Poet Laureate when Tennyson died. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 June 16/3 Amiri Baraka has filed a federal lawsuit against the Governor of New Jersey.., seeking damages related to his dismissal from the post of state Poet Laureate. Derivatives ˌpoet-ˈlaureateship n. the office or position of Poet Laureate. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > title of eminent poet > as member of Royal Household > office of laurel1700 laureateship1785 laurelship1820 poet-laureateshipc1836 c1836 in Byron's Wks. (1846) 523/2 Pye, the predecessor of Mr. Southey in the poet-laureateship, died in 1813. 1874 C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. V. 358/2 Thomas Warton..obtained the poet-laureateship in 1785. 2005 Statesman Jrnl. (Salem, Oregon) (Nexis) 18 Mar. 1 c (headline) Oregon will reinstate poet laureateship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1456 |
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