Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin , born the May 30th 1835, dead the June 21st 1913, is an English poet, who was named poet prize winner in 1896 after the death of Tennyson.

Life

Alfred Austin is born with Headingley, close to Leeds, on May 30th, 1835. His/her father, Joseph Austin, are merchant with Leeds; his/her mother, a sister of Joseph Locke. Austin studies with Stonyhurst College, with Clitheroe, in the Lancashire, and with the Université of London, which it leaves graduate in 1853.

It becomes lawyer in 1857 before leaving the right to turn to the literature.

Politically preserving, Austin publishes the National Review during several years and writing of the articles for The Standard .

With died of Tennyson in 1892, as there was no alive poet, except for Swinburne or of William Morris, which profited from a certain consideration out of Great Britain, who was distinguished sufficiently to succeed the laurel wreath, and, during several years, no new poet prize winner is named. In the interval, the claims of various writers are evaluated but, finally, in 1896, Austin is named at this station.

Austin dies of an unknown cause the June 21st 1913 with Ashford, in the Kent.

Poetry

In 1861, after two false starts in poetry and the fiction, it makes its first notable appearance as writer with the Season: a satire , which contains lines incisors and is characterized by its promising qualities as for the spirit and with the observation. In 1870, it publishes a volume of criticism, the Poetry of the Time , which is conceived in a spirit of satire and attacks Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold and Swinburne without reserve. The book causes the polemic at the time, but its judgments miss critical spirit extremely.

Like poet prize winner, his worms of topicality do not escape negative criticism; a poem written with the praise of Jameson Raid in 1896 in is a notable example. The most effective characteristics of the poetry of the Austin, like best of its prose, are true and close friend love of nature. Its idylles in prose, the Garden that I coils and In Veronica' S Garden , is borrow of a charming and ventilated perfume. Its lyric poems miss spontaneousness and of originality, but number of them have a simple and ordered charm, like an English country lane. It has, indeed, a true love of England, sometimes not without a suspicion of insularity, but always fresh and clever. A drama of him, Flodden Field , is played Majesty' S theater in 1903.

Among its works, there is Pacchiarotto , Prince Lucifer and the Human tragedy (1862). Its autobiography was published in 1911.

A Poem -- To England

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