Item Detail
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Macmillan Co.
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40
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Austin, Alfred
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The Door of Humility
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8vo
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original white buckram (ink spotted)
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London
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1906
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First Edition
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174 p.
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20 cm.
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821 Au76d 1906
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Presentation copy: "To Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, with the affectionate regard of his friend and admirer, Alfred Austin. April 1906." With Blunt's "Crabbet Park" bookplate. Austin succeeded Tennyson as Poet Laureate--probably the worst choice imaginable. E.F. Benson credits him with the following couplet written at the time of the Jameson Raid: "They went across the veldt / As hard as they could pelt." But then Byron, in similar vein, could write: "Merrily, merrily never unsound, / Shall our bonny black horses skim over the ground."