Poet laureate the honour that no formal effusions from him should be required. Due to his age, he became the only laureate to write no official poetry. Tennyson was generally happy in his numerous poems of this class. On Tennyson's death there was a considerable feeling that there was no acceptable successor. William Morris and Swinburne were hardly suitable as court poets. Eventually the undesirability of breaking the tradition for temporary reasons, and severing the one official link between literature and the state, prevailed over the protests against allowing someone of inferior genius to follow Tennyson. Abolition was similarly advocated when Warton
Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate at the pleasure of both the Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Commons, with the maximum term of office set at two years. The position comes with an annual stipend of $20,000, up to $13,000 in travel expenses annually, a budget for administrative expenses and translation/adaptation into Canada's second official language. In order to be chosen for the position, a poet must have: Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate The Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is the official poet laureate of Canada. The current poet laureate is Georgette LeBlanc, who was appointed in January 2018. The position is