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See also:ALFRED See also:AUSTIN
• (1835— ), See also:English poet-See also:laureate, was See also:born at Headingley, near See also:Leeds, on the 3oth of May 1835
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His See also:father, See also:Joseph See also: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
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Mr Austin was educated at Stonyhurst, Oscott, and See also:London University, where he graduated in 1853
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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; 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
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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
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The See also:book aroused some discussion at the time, but its judgments were extremely uncritical
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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
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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
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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:
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
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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
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He has, indeed, a true love of England, sometimes not without a suspicion of insularity, but always fresh and ingenuous
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A See also:drama by him, See also:Flodden See also: |
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