Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate
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Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate
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Alfred Austin (1835-1913), an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 (to 1913) upon the death of Alfred Lord Tennyson. On Tennyson's death in 1892 it was felt that none of the then living poets, except Algernon Charles Swinburne or William Morris, who were outside consideration on other grounds, was of sufficient distinction to succeed to the laurel crown, and for several years no new poet-laureate was nominated. In the interval the claims of one writer and another were assessed, but eventually, in 1896, Austin was appointed to the post after Morris had declined it.
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