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After 341 Years, a Woman Is British Poet Laureate



Carol Ann Duffy was named poet laureate of 
Britain on Friday, the first time in its 341-year 
history that the post — held by such poets as 
Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted Hughes — has gone to a woman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/world/europe/02poet.html?_r=1&hp








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