Patrick Gill is a senior lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research interests include English poetry from early modern times to the present, as well as considerations of literary form more broadly. Roslyn Joy Irving is a lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her research interests include the poetry and prose of the long eighteenth century.

• Poetry and Public Office: An Introduction to the LaureateshipPatrick Gill and Roslyn Joy IrvingThey Wanted Nothing but the Laurel: Constructing a Laureate Tradition from Geoffrey Chaucer to Ben JonsonFlorian KlaegerGood and Acceptable Services: John Dryden and the LaureateshipJohn WestPerformance and Anxiety: Reading the Laureateships of Thomas Shadwell, Nahum Tate, and Nicholas RoweClaudine van HensbergenFriendless Favourites: Laurence Eusden and Colley CibberAnaclara Castro-SantanaThe Good, the Ugly, and the Bad: William Whitehead, Thomas Warton, and Henry James PyeAndrew HodgsonThe Turncoats: Radicalism and Resistance in the Laureateships of Robert Southey and William WordsworthKeerthi S. VasishtaElegy and Empire: Alfred TennysonErik GrayThe Problem of the Laureateship after Tennyson: Alfred Austin and Robert BridgesJordan KistlerThe Laureateship as Public and Private Office: John MasefieldPhilip W. ErringtonLaureate Poets in the Post-War Political Landscape: Cecil Day-Lewis and John BetjemanAnja Müller-WoodRain-Charm, Spring Wedding: The Laureate Poems of Ted Hughes and Andrew MotionYvonne Reddick“Call it woman’s work”: The Laureateship of Carol Ann DuffyAnne VartyCommunity Service and Personal Branding: Simon ArmitageClaire HélieCoda: A Tradition ProliferatedPatrick Gill and Roslyn Joy Irving

Patrick Gill is a senior lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research interests include English poetry from early modern times to the present, as well as considerations of literary form more broadly. Roslyn Joy Irving is a lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her research interests include the poetry and prose of the long eighteenth century.

• Poetry and Public Office: An Introduction to the LaureateshipPatrick Gill and Roslyn Joy IrvingThey Wanted Nothing but the Laurel: Constructing a Laureate Tradition from Geoffrey Chaucer to Ben JonsonFlorian KlaegerGood and Acceptable Services: John Dryden and the LaureateshipJohn WestPerformance and Anxiety: Reading the Laureateships of Thomas Shadwell, Nahum Tate, and Nicholas RoweClaudine van HensbergenFriendless Favourites: Laurence Eusden and Colley CibberAnaclara Castro-SantanaThe Good, the Ugly, and the Bad: William Whitehead, Thomas Warton, and Henry James PyeAndrew HodgsonThe Turncoats: Radicalism and Resistance in the Laureateships of Robert Southey and William WordsworthKeerthi S. VasishtaElegy and Empire: Alfred TennysonErik GrayThe Problem of the Laureateship after Tennyson: Alfred Austin and Robert BridgesJordan KistlerThe Laureateship as Public and Private Office: John MasefieldPhilip W. ErringtonLaureate Poets in the Post-War Political Landscape: Cecil Day-Lewis and John BetjemanAnja Müller-WoodRain-Charm, Spring Wedding: The Laureate Poems of Ted Hughes and Andrew MotionYvonne Reddick“Call it woman’s work”: The Laureateship of Carol Ann DuffyAnne VartyCommunity Service and Personal Branding: Simon ArmitageClaire HélieCoda: A Tradition ProliferatedPatrick Gill and Roslyn Joy Irving

Patrick Gill is a senior lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research interests include English poetry from early modern times to the present, as well as considerations of literary form more broadly. Roslyn Joy Irving is a lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her research interests include the poetry and prose of the long eighteenth century.

• Poetry and Public Office: An Introduction to the LaureateshipPatrick Gill and Roslyn Joy IrvingThey Wanted Nothing but the Laurel: Constructing a Laureate Tradition from Geoffrey Chaucer to Ben JonsonFlorian KlaegerGood and Acceptable Services: John Dryden and the LaureateshipJohn WestPerformance and Anxiety: Reading the Laureateships of Thomas Shadwell, Nahum Tate, and Nicholas RoweClaudine van HensbergenFriendless Favourites: Laurence Eusden and Colley CibberAnaclara Castro-SantanaThe Good, the Ugly, and the Bad: William Whitehead, Thomas Warton, and Henry James PyeAndrew HodgsonThe Turncoats: Radicalism and Resistance in the Laureateships of Robert Southey and William WordsworthKeerthi S. VasishtaElegy and Empire: Alfred TennysonErik GrayThe Problem of the Laureateship after Tennyson: Alfred Austin and Robert BridgesJordan KistlerThe Laureateship as Public and Private Office: John MasefieldPhilip W. ErringtonLaureate Poets in the Post-War Political Landscape: Cecil Day-Lewis and John BetjemanAnja Müller-WoodRain-Charm, Spring Wedding: The Laureate Poems of Ted Hughes and Andrew MotionYvonne Reddick“Call it woman’s work”: The Laureateship of Carol Ann DuffyAnne VartyCommunity Service and Personal Branding: Simon ArmitageClaire HélieCoda: A Tradition ProliferatedPatrick Gill and Roslyn Joy Irving