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-. Contemporary ownership inscription on FFEP. Light wear to boards and extremities.
- 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.