| 1. | John Dryden | (1668–89) |
| 2. | Thomas Shadwell | (1689–92) |
| 3. | Nahum Tate | (1692–1715) |
| 4. | Nicholas Rowe | (1715–18) |
| 5. | Laurence Eusden | (1718–30) |
| 6. | Colley Cibber | (1730–57) |
| 7. | William Whitehead | (1757–85) |
| 8. | Thomas Warton | (1785–90) |
| 9. | Henry James Pye | (1790–1813) |
| 10. | Robert Southey | (1813–43) |
| 11. | William Wordsworth | (1843–50) |
| 12. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | (1850–92) |
| 13. | Alfred Austin | (1896–1913) |
| 14. | Robert Bridges | (1913–30) |
| 15. | John Masefield | (1930–67) |
| 16. | Cecil Day-Lewis | (1968–72) |
| 17. | Sir John Betjeman | (1972–84) |
| 18. | Ted Hughes | (1984–98) |
| 19. | Andrew Motion | (1999–2009) |
| 20. | Carol Ann Duffy | (2009–19) |
| 21. | Simon Armitage | (2019– ) |
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