Each Laureate has their own unique project undertaken during the course of their laureateship. Petrarch looked at his laureateship as political. Barker became a celebrate and was offered the laureateship of California, which he declined. Both before and after his Laureateship, he wrote public odes. Cibber's elevation to laureateship in 1730 further inflamed Pope against him. As part of his laureateship, he organized an art collective, Unity Community. He was publicly tipped for the Poet Laureateship in 1967 and 1972. The laureateship referred to was a degree in rhetoric. Four poets, Philip Larkin, Thomas Gray, Samuel Rogers and Walter Scott, turned down the laureateship.