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from New York Times ╱ 2 May 2009

After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman

Although the phrase “Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted Hughes” is ludicrous

With the choice of Carol Ann Duffy, the post held by such poets as Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted Hughes went to a woman for the first time.

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