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After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman

By Sarah Lyall — 2009

The writer Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Britain’s poet laureate on Friday, becoming the first woman to take a 341-year-old job that has been held by, among others, Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Cecil Day-Lewis and Ted Hughes.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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