1850 ⟶ Alfred Tennyson Appointed Poet Laureate

Alfred Tennyson is appointed Poet Laureate after the death o...
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✍️ Publication of Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson

1782: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson⟶
Publication of Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson (1779)
LiteraturePoetryBiographyEnlightenmentEnglish Literature
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✍️ Publication of William Blake's *Songs of Innocence*

Songs of Innocence by William Blake⟶
Publication of William Blake's *Songs of Innocence* (1789)
PoetryLiteratureRomanticismArtEnlightenmentSymbolismSocial Commentary
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✍️ William Blake Publishes Songs of Experience

Songs of Experience by William Blake⟶
William Blake Publishes Songs of Experience (1794)
RomanticismPoetryLiteratureSocial CommentaryVisual ArtsSymbolism
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✍️ Publication of Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge⟶
Publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798)
RomanticismPoetryLiteratureEnglish Literature
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✍️ John Keats Composes the Odes

John Keats writes his odes of 1819.⟶
John Keats Composes the Odes (1819)
PoetryRomanticismBritish LiteratureEnglish LiteratureLiterature
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✍️ Alfred Tennyson Appointed Poet Laureate

Alfred Tennyson is appointed Poet Laureate after the death of William Wordsworth.⟶
Alfred Tennyson Appointed Poet Laureate (1850)
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