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ALFRED
ALFRED • (1835— ), See also:

ENGLISH

English poet-See also:

LAUREATE (Lat. laureatus, from laurea, the laurel tree)

laureate, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Headingley, near See also:

Leeds, on the 3oth of May 1835. His See also:

FATHER

father, See also:

Joseph Austin, was a See also:

MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Leeds; his See also:

MOTHER

mother, a See also:

SISTER

sister of Joseph See also:

Locke, M.P. for See also:

HONITON

Honiton. Mr Austin was educated at Stonyhurst, Oscott, and See also:

LONDON

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

barrister for a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

time; but in 1861, after two comparatively false starts in See also:

POETRY

poetry and fiction, he made his first noteworthy See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance as a writer with a See also:

SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire called The See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

Season, which contained incisive lines, and was marked by some promise both in wit and observation. In 187o he published a See also:

VOLUME

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, ALFRED TENNYSON

Tennyson, See also:

Browning, See also:

Matthew See also:

Arnold and See also:

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837–1909)

Swinburne in no See also:

HALF

half-hearted See also:

FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion. The See also:

BOOK

book aroused some discussion at the time, but its judgments were extremely uncritical. In 1881 Mr Austin returned to See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse with a tragedy, See also:

SAVONAROLA, GIROLAMO (1452-1498)

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 (Lat. conversio, from convertere, to turn or ,change)

Conversion of See also:

WINCKELMANN, JOHANN JOACHIM (1717-.1768)

Winckelmann in 1897, &c. A keen Conservative in politics, for several years he edited The See also:

NATIONAL

National See also:

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review, and wrote leading articles for The See also:

Standard. On Tennyson's See also:

DEATH

death in 1892 it was See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt that none of the then living poets, except Swinburne or See also:

William See also:

Morris, who were outside See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration on other grounds, was of sufficient distinction to succeed to the See also:

LAUREL

laurel See also:

CROWN

crown, and for several years no new poet-laureate was nominated. In the See also:

INTERVAL

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

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

prose, is a genuine and intimate love of nature.

His prose idylls, The See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden that I love and In See also:

VERONICA, ST

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

simple, orderly See also:

CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm, as of an English See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

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 (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama by him, See also:

FLODDEN, or FLODDEN FIELD

Flodden See also:

Field, was acted at His See also:

MAJESTY (Fr. majeste; Lat. majestas, grandeur, greatness, from the base mag-, as in magnus, great, major, greater, &c.)

Majesty's See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre in 1903.

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