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Alfred Austin

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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.


— Alfred Austin


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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.


— Alfred Austin


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Tears are the summer showers to the soul.


— Alfred Austin


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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


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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


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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.


— Alfred Austin


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Black (London)
A Lesson in Harmony (1904) – PubliAlfred Austind by French (New York City)
The Poet's Diary (1904) – PubliAlfred Austind by Macmillan (London)
(Editor) An Eighteenth Century Anthology (1904) – PubliAlfred Austind by Blackie (London)
The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry (1910) – PubliAlfred Austind by Macmillan (London)
The Autobiography of Alfred Austin Poet Laureate 1835–1910 (1911) – PubliAlfred Austind by Macmillan (London) [2 vols]


A Poem – To England


Caricature
Austin was caricatured as "Sir Austed Alfrin" by L. The book aroused some discussion at the time but its judgments were extremely uncritical. In 1870 he publiAlfred Austind a volume of criticism The Poetry of the Period which was conceived in the spirit of satire and attacked Tennyson Browning Matthew Arnold and Swinburne in an unrestrained fashion.

Alfred Austin DL(30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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