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See also: AUSTIN, See also:ALFRED • (1835— ), See also:English poet-See also:laureate, was See also:born at Headingley, near See also:Leeds, on the 3oth of May 1835. His See also:father, See also:Joseph Austin, was a See also:merchant of the See also:city of Leeds; his See also:mother, a See also:sister of Joseph See also:Locke, M.P. for See also:Honiton. Mr Austin was educated at Stonyhurst, Oscott, and See also:London University, where he graduated in 1853. He was called to the See also:bar four years later, and practised as a See also:barrister for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; but in 1861, after two comparatively false starts in See also:poetry and fiction, he made his first noteworthy See also:appearance as a writer with a See also:satire called The See also:Season, which contained incisive lines, and was marked by some promise both in wit and observation. In 187o he published a See also:volume of See also:criticism, The Poetry of the See also:Period, which was again conceived in a spirit of satirical invective, and attacked See also:Tennyson, See also:Browning, See also:Matthew See also:Arnold and See also:Swinburne in no See also:half-hearted See also:fashion. The See also:book aroused some discussion at the time, but its judgments were extremely uncritical. In 1881 Mr Austin returned to See also:verse with a tragedy, See also:Savonarola, to which he added Soliloquies in 1882, See also:Prince See also:Lucifer in 1887, See also:England's See also:Darling in 1896, The See also:Conversion of See also:Winckelmann in 1897, &c. A keen Conservative in politics, for several years he edited The See also:National See also:Review, and wrote leading articles for The See also:Standard. On Tennyson's See also:death in 1892 it was See also:felt that none of the then living poets, except Swinburne or See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Morris, who were outside See also:consideration on other grounds, was of sufficient distinction to succeed to the See also:laurel See also:crown, and for several years no new poet-laureate was nominated. In the See also:interval the claims of one writer and another were much canvassed, but eventually, in 1896, Mr Austin was appointed. As poet-laureate, his occasional verses did not See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape adverse criticism; his hasty poem in praise of the See also:Jameson See also:Raid in 1896 being a notable instance. The most effective characteristic of Mr Austin's poetry, as of the best of his See also:prose, is a genuine and intimate love of nature. His prose idylls, The See also: Garden that I love and In See also:Veronica's Garden, are full of a pleasant, open-See also:air flavour, which is also the outstanding feature of his English Lyrics. His lyrical poems are wanting in spontaneity and individuality, but many of them possess a See also:simple, orderly See also:charm, as of an English See also:country See also:lane. He has, indeed, a true love of England, sometimes not without a suspicion of insularity, but always fresh and ingenuous. A See also:drama by him, See also:Flodden See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field, was acted at His See also:Majesty's See also:theatre in 1903.
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