My favourite poet

My favourite poet of all time is Alfred Austin. Alfred Austin (May 30, 1835 – June 2, 1913) was an English poet, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Tennyson.Alfred was born in Headingley, near Leeds, on 30 May 1835. His father, Joseph Austin, was a merchant in Leeds; his mother, a sister of Joseph Locke, M.P. for Honiton. Austin was educated at Stonyhurst College (Clitheroe, Lancashire), and University of London, from which he graduated in 1853. He became a barrister in 1857 before leaving law to concentrate on literature. Politically conservative, Austin edited National Review for several years, and wrote leading articles for The Standard. On Tennyson's death in 1892 it was felt that none of the then living poets, except Algernon Charles Swinburne or William Morris, who were outside consideration on other grounds, was of sufficient distinction to succeed to the laurel crown, and for several years no new poet-laureate was nominated. In the interval the claims of one writer and another were assessed, but eventually, in 1896, Austin was appointed to the post after Morris had declined the post. Austin died of unknown causes in Ashford, Kent, England.

The reason I like him is because he said some very meaningful quotes. A few of his quotes are:"Tears are the summer showers to the soul.", "Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.". I feel that all these quotes are very true, thus I like him very much. Here are esome of the poems that he wrote
Love's Blindness
The Haymakers’ Song
At His Grave
Bilbiography
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/alfred_austin/poems/22221
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Austin