Laureate genius. Abolition was similarly advocated when Thomas Warton and William Wordsworth died. The poet laureate, being a court official, was considered responsible for producing formal and appropriate verses on birthdays and state occasions; but his activity in this respect has varied, according to circumstances, and the custom ceased to be obligatory after Pye's death. Wordsworth stipulated, before accepting the honor, that no formal effusions from him should be considered a necessity; but Tennyson was generally happy in his numerous poems of this class. The emoluments of the post have varied; Ben Jonson first received a pension of 100 marks, and
Children's Laureate ambassador is announced at Gothenburg Book Fair by the Swedish Minister of Culture. As part of the tenure the ambassador help communicate to children about books and reading, From 2013 every two years the Dutch Reading Foundation appoints a well-known children's books author as an ambassador for children’s literature. Since 2017, this ‘Kinderboekenambassadeur’ has a seat in his special embassy in the Children's Book Museum in The Hague. Children's Laureate Children's Laureate is a position initially awarded in the United Kingdom once every two years to a "writer or illustrator of children's books to celebrate outstanding achievement in their field."