Alfred, Lord Tennyson position of Poet Laureate; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Leigh Hunt had also been considered. He held the position until his own death in 1892, the longest tenure of any laureate. Tennyson fulfilled the requirements of this position by turning out appropriate but often uninspired verse, such as a poem of greeting to Princess Alexandra of Denmark when she arrived in Britain to marry the future King Edward VII. In 1855, Tennyson produced one of his best-known works, "The Charge of the Light Brigade", a dramatic tribute to the British cavalrymen involved in an ill-advised charge on 25 October 1854, during
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