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Don't have an account? In This Article Sidney and Shakespeare Commonplace Shakespeare: Even his utmost defenders would surely accept that John Betjeman, poet laureate , ought to have a place in this pantheon. Still, like all forms of art, this one is infected by fashion; one generation's fine verse may find itself on the next generation's reject pile, and vice versa. When Wordsworth died in , Macaulay told Matthew Arnold that less money had been collected all over the land for a memorial than could have been mustered in Cambridge alone 10 years earlier.
This had nothing to do with Wordsworth's acceptance of the office of laureate.
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He wrote no bad verse in his role as poet laureate, since he wrote no verse at all; the only work to issue from him, a celebration of the installation of Prince Albert as chancellor of Cambridge University, was written for him by his son-in-law. That Arnold and Macaulay should have had their chat about Wordsworth is perhaps a trifle surprising, since Arnold could not abide the poetry or prose of Macaulay.
Long may such disputations continue. The next excitement in this department of life is not due until , when Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is due to give up the mastership of the queen's music, an office occupied by even more duds in its day than the laureateship.