Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913)

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A writer who wore several hats throughout his career, Alfred Austin was a critic, novelist and political journalist. Although he was educated in law, his professional life focused primarily on literature. Austin published regularly for half a century and succeeded Alfred, Lord Tennyson as poet laureate of England in 1896. Nonetheless, he carries the reputation of having been the worst and least read English poet. Austin was born on May 30, 1835, in Headingley, near Leeds, to Roman Catholic p.. Continue..

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Love's Blindness

The Haymakers’ Song

At His Grave

Agatha

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	Across the wires the electric message came: "He is no better, he is much the same."

- Alfred Austin

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