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Alfred Austin

(Austin, Alfred, 1835-1913)

Alfred Austin, poet laurete of England, 1823-1913
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Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was claimed that he was being rewarded for his support for the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury in the General Election of 1895. Austin's poems are little remembered today, his most popular work being prose idylls celebrating nature. Wilfred Scawen Blunt wrote of him, "He is an acute and ready reasoner, and is well read in theology and science. It is strange his poetry should be such poor stuff, and stranger still that he should imagine it immortal." (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Austin, Alfred, 1835-1913, contrib.: Poets of Our Day (London: Methuen and Co., 1908), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith, also contrib. by George William Russell, J. J. Bell, Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Arthur Christopher Benson, Laurence Binyon, Francis William Bourdillon, Robert Bridges, Bliss Carman, Madison Julius Cawein, G. K. Chesterton, Ethel Clifford, Francis Burdett Money-Coutts, John Davidson, Austin Dobson, May Doney, Norman Gale, Gerald Gould, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Richard Le Gallienne, Winifred Lucas, Walter De la Mare, John Masefield, Alice Meynell, T. Sturge Moore, E. Nesbit, John Henry Newbolt, Alfred Noyes, Moira O'Neill, John Swinnerton Phillimore, Stephen Phillips, Eden Phillpotts, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Charles G. D. Roberts, A. Mary F. Robinson, George Santayana, Duncan Campbell Scott, Arthur Symons, John B. Tabb, Rachel Annand Taylor, Francis Thompson, Herbert Trench, E. S. Tylee, William Watson, Margaret L. Woods, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and W. B. Yeats
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