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Alfred Austin war ein britischer Schriftsteller.

Austin war der Sohn des Kaufmanns Joseph Austin und dessen Ehefrau, einer Schwester des Bauingenieurs John Locke. Er absolvierte einen Teil seiner Schulzeit am Stonyhurst College und teilweise auf dem Kontinent. Er studierte Rechtswissenschaften an der University of London und schloss dieses Studium 1853 mit einer Promotion ab. Ein Jahr später wurde er London als Barrister zugelassen.

In die Literatur hatte sich Austin schon 1854 anonym durch das Gedicht Roland, das lebhafte Sympathie für Polen ausdrückte, eingeführt. Sein erstes bedeutendes Werk war The season, a satire , eine Verspottung der fashionabeln Saison Londons, das bedeutende satirische Kraft bewies, von der rigoristischen Presse aber mit Unwillen aufgenommen wurde, worauf Alfred Austin alsbald mit dem Pamphlet My satire and its censors antwortete.

Nachdem er 1861 seine Advokatur aufgegeben hatte, um sich ganz der Poesie zu widmen, gab er 1862 das Gedicht The human Tragedy heraus, das 1874 in völliger Neubearbeitung erschien.

Daneben hat Alfred Austin eine Menge literarischer Essays verfasst, deren hauptsächlichstes in dem lesenswerten, doch nicht unparteiischen Werk The poetry of the period gesammelt erschienen. Als Berichterstatter der Zeitung Standard war er während des vatikanischen Konzils in Rom und 1870/71 für die Dauer des Deutsch-Französischen Kriegs im Hauptquartier des Königs von Preußen. Für die konservative Partei von jeher sehr tätig, war Alfred Austin namentlich während des letzten Orientkriegs ein lebhafter Verteidiger der Politik Disraelis.

✵ 30. Mai 1835 – 2. Juni 1913
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“Towns can be trusted to corrupt themselves.”

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Alfred Austin

Quelle: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Abaddon in Act I, sc. iii; p. 22.

“'Tis a world
Where all is bought, and nothing's worth the price.”

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Quelle: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. ii; p. 17.

“Of all our feigned affections, there is none
So hollow, selfish, and injurious,
As what we christen Patriotism.”

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Quelle: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. ii; p. 15.

“Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.”

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Alfred Austin

Quelle: Soliloquies in Song (1882), "A Woman's Apology", stanza XI; p. 26

“Who once believed will never wholly doubt.”

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Quelle: Prince Lucifer (1887), Lucifer in Act VI, sc. ii; p. 193.

“Who once has doubted never quite believes.”

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Quelle: Prince Lucifer (1887), Eve in Act VI, sc. ii; p. 193.

“Death is master of lord and clown.
Close the coffin and hammer it down.”

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Quelle: Prince Lucifer (1887), Adam in Act IV, sc. iv; p. 111.

“Let Will but set its appetite on war,
And Reason will promptly invent offence,
And furnish blood with arguments.”

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Alfred Austin

Quelle: Prince Lucifer (1887), Abdiel in Act III, sc. iii; p. 80.

“Love and naughtiness are always in their teens.”

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Quelle: Prince Lucifer (1887), Crone in Act III, sc. i; p. 63.

“[E]xclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”

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Quelle: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 117.

“[T]here is no gardening without humility, an assiduous willingness to learn, and a cheerful readiness to admit that you were mistaken. Nature is continually sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”

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Quelle: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 13.

“Public opinion is no more than this,
What people think that other people think.”

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Prince Lucifer (1887), Lucifer in Act VI, sc. ii; p. 189.

“A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.”

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Quelle: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 112.

“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”

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Quelle: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 112.

“Why from the plain truth should I shrink?
In woods men feel; in towns they think.
Yet, which is best? Thought, stumbling, plods
Past fallen temples, vanished gods,
Altars unincensed, fanes undecked,
Eternal systems flown or wrecked;
Through trackless centuries that grant
To the poor trudge refreshment scant,
Age after age, pants on to find
A melting mirage of the mind.
But feeling never wanders far,
Content to fare with things that are.”

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Quelle: At the Gate of the Convent (1885), "A Defence of English Spring", p. 58.

“The most generous of critics, if he is to be discriminating and just, cannot, let me say again, allow that any verse which is profoundly obscure or utterly unmusical, no matter how intellectual in substance, deserves the appellation of poetry. But on a very thin thread of meaning poetry, or a very fair imitation of it, may be hung by the aid of musical sound.”

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Quelle: The Bridling of Pegasus (1910), "The Essentials of Great Poetry", p. 7.

“[P]eople who canalise their lives and prearrange their enjoyments lose much of the enchantment which attends the guiding beneficence of chance.”

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Quelle: Lamia's Winter-Quarters (1898), p. 96.

“It is always delightful to have one's feelings expressed by some one else in language of enthusiasm one might oneself be afraid to employ.”

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Quelle: Lamia's Winter-Quarters (1898), p. 68.

“Men preach Philosophy, women practise it.”

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Quelle: Lamia's Winter-Quarters (1898), Lamia on p. 66.

“One must be intoxicated by scenery, in order to appreciate it. Tranquil survey is not enough, and scrutinising curiosity is fatal.”

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Quelle: Lamia's Winter-Quarters (1898), p. 6.

“If you are not something of a philosopher,—and by philosophy I understand a serene temper, and the maintaining of an equable mind under the sharpest disappointments,—I do not advise you to cultivate, or at any rate to grow enamoured of, a garden.”

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Quelle: In Veronica's Garden (1895), p. 92.

“Doth logic in the lily hide,
And where's the reason in the rose?”

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The Door of Humility (1906)
Quelle: "Rome", XLI, line 11; p. 116.

“If Man makes Conscience, then being good
Is only being worldly wise,
And universal brotherhood
A comfortable compromise.”

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The Door of Humility (1906)
Quelle: "Italy", XXXII, line 21; p. 82.

“Where in the lily lurks the mind,
Where in the rose discern the soul?More mindless still, stream, pasture, lake;
The mountains yet more heartless seem. […]It is their silence that appals,
Their aspect motionless that awes,
When searching spirit vainly calls
On the effect to bare the Cause.”

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The Door of Humility (1906)
Quelle: "Switzerland", XXII, lines 15–18, 37–40; pp. 53–54.

“A little knowledge is said to be a dangerous thing, but it is not dangerous to the imagination. Knowledge is to the imagination what fuel is to flame. A little feeds it; a great deal extinguishes it.”

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Quelle: The Poet's Diary (1904), p. 158.

“People living and dead, things past and present, all are contributories to that diminutive stream, oneself; a reflection which is essentially consoling, since it associates one with the sum of things and prevents one from living in barren isolation.”

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Alfred Austin

Quelle: The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907), p. 4.

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