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Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.
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Nature is continually sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. But, by the due exercise of patience and diligence, they may work their way to the top again.
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Born:
May 30, 1835
Died:
June 2, 1913
(aged 78)
Bio:
Alfred Austin was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour.
Known for:
The Garden That I Love (1895)
The Human Tragedy (1862)
Haunts of ancient peace (1901)
Fortunatus The Pessimist (1892)
Leszko the Bastard: A Tale of Polish Grief (1877)
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