Word: laureateship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism at Harvard. There he rides herd on eager reporters who come to steep themselves in history, literature, sociology and talk with visiting pundits. This job took more time than Poet MacLeish bargained for. But unless he should make a laureateship out of the librarianship, his new job will take hours longer beyond reckoning. Poet MacLeish accepted it because, he said, it is one of those posts which "no man has a right to refuse." That he will skimp it, let technicians do all the dirty work, can be suspected only by persons...
...never produced a line to order because the spirit never moved him at the right moment. One of the conscientious was Lord Tennyson who, according to Carlyle, sat "on a dungheap amid innumerable dead dogs" (i.e., buried himself in Homer and Virgil) during the early years of his laureateship, but later rallied sufficiently to produce such gems as The Charge of the Light Brigade...