Description
AUSTIN, Alfred. Narrative Poems. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891.
First Edition. 8vo. 19 cm tall. 187 pages. Publisher’s full blue cloth, gilt Pegasus device to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Title page verso blank; consistent with Macmillan practice in the early 1890s. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. Near Fine-. Ownership inscription on FFEP.
- This title from Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate of the U.K. from 1896 to 1913 (succeeding Tennyson), is perhaps the best single-volume gateway into the pre-Laureate narrative verse of this poet, dramatist, and novelist.
- Austin was caricatured as “Sir Austed Alfrin, the Poet Laureate” by L. Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz author) in Baum’s 1906 novel John Dough and the Cherub.