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Alfred Austin

poet, novelist, writer, journalist, barrister

1835  – 1913

Alfred Austin was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was claimed that he was being rewarded for his support for the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury in the General Election of 1895. Austin's poems are little remembered today, his most popular work being prose idylls celebrating nature. Wilfred Scawen Blunt wrote of him, "He is an acute and ready reasoner, and is well read in theology and science. It is strange his poetry should be such poor stuff, and stranger still that he should imagine it immortal."

All Quotes by Alfred Austin

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.”
— Alfred Austin
“Is life worth living? Yes, so longTo show that she is here;”
— Alfred Austin
“Is life worth living? Yes, so longOr tyranny to fight;”
— Alfred Austin
“He is dead already who doth not feelLife is worth living still.”
— Alfred Austin
“O'er the wires the electric message came,"He is no better; he is much the same."”
— Alfred Austin
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.”
— Alfred Austin
“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”
— Alfred Austin