If you are a poet laureate
in England you are officially the top poet of the
country and, best of all, you get a salary from the
royal household.
Alfred
Tennyson was one of these lucky dogs.
If you
are a poet laureate in the US you are also the
consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress and
have to show up at certain national ceremonies.
Why Laureate?
The laurel was Apollo's
favorite tree. Apollo in turn was the god of music,
dance, rubber ducks, and poetry.
Here follows a
list of the all poets laureate, UK and U.S.
Greco-Persian Wars
Also called the
Persian Wars, the Greco-Persian Wars were
fought for almost half a century from 492 to
449 BC. Greece won against enormous odds. Here
is more:
