Statistics for Poet Laureates

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Poem	Life Span	Initials	Answer	% Correct
The charge of the Light Brigade	1809-1892	A,LT	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	100%
I wandered lonely as a cloud	1770-1850	WW	William Wordsworth	100%
A Shropshire Lad	1906-1984	JB	John Betjeman	71%
Holy island	1952-	AM	Andrew Motion	57%
Overture to Death	1904-1972	CD-L	Cecil Day-Lewis	57%
Crow	1930-1998	TH	Ted Hughes	57%
Havisham	1955-	CAD	Carol Ann Duffy	43%
Renyard the fox	1878-1967	JM	John Masefield	29%
Chainsaw versus the pampas grass	1963-	SA	Simon Armitage	29%
Love's Blindness	1835-1913	AA	Alfred Austin	14%
The Blind Boy	1671-1757	CC	Colly Cibber	14%
Alfred	1745-1813	HJP	Henry James Pye	14%
Absalom and Achitophel	1631-1700	JD	John Dryden	14%
While shepherds watched their flocks by night	1652-1715	NT	Nahum Tate	14%
The Brave	1674-1718	NR	Nicholas Rowe	14%
After Blenheim	1774-1843	RS	Robert Southey	14%
Dear Pretty Youth	1640-1692	TS	Thomas Shadwell	14%
The Pleasures of Melancholy	128-1790	TW	Thomas Warton	14%
The Origin of the Knights of the Bath	1688-1730	LE	Laurence Eusden	0%
The Evening Darkens over	1844-1930	RB	Robert Bridges	0%
The Je Ne Sais Quoi	1715-1785	WW	William Whitehead	0%