POET LAUREATE DEAD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 144, 3 June 1913, Page 5

POET LAUREATE DEAD.

(Received 3. 10.20 a.m.) London, June 2. Alfred Austin, the Poet Laureate, is dead. Alfred Austin. Poet Laureate since 1-596, was born at Headinglev’. Leeds, May. 1535. He was the second son of -.'dr. Joseph Austin, a merchant and Magistrate of the borough ol Leeds. He was educated at Stoueyhurst and (Jscott. and graduated at the London University in 1853. He was admitted barrister at the Inner Temple m 1557. and attended the York asdzi-s and West Riding sessions for three yens, but with no intention of remaining at the Bar. On the death of his father in 1861 he. devoted himsdf to foreign travel end literature. When in England he livcfl always in the country, four wars at liertf< rdshire, and afterwards at Swinford Old Manor, Ashford. Knit. Included in his publications are-:—-Randolph : a Talc of Polish Grief. 15.W: The Season: a Satire. 1861 ; bis ether poetical works published in the following order, are The Golden Age, Interludes, donna’s Child. The flower of Babel, The Human Tragedy, Savonarola. L-cszko the Bastard. Lyrical Poems. Narrative Poems, Prince Lucifer, Fuitunatus the Pessimist. Alfred the Great, England’s Darling, the Conversion of Winckclmann, and other Poems. 1597 ; A T;ile of True Love, 1902; Floddin Field : Tragedy, 1903; The Dood of Humility, 1906; Sacred and Profane Love. 1908. Among his prose works are rhe Garden tb-il I Love, In Veronica’s Garden, ami Lamia’s Winter Quarters; Spring and Autumn in Ireland, 1900 ; Haunts Ancient Peace. 1902 ; A Lesson in Harmony. 1904 ; The Bridling of Pegasus; An Autobiography. 191 1.