III CLOSE OF THE ERA (INTERMEDIARY PERIOD) 1875-1895 DEATH OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON: October 6, 1892 ALFRED AUSTIN APPOINTED LAUREATE: JANUARY 1, 1896 IMPRESSION In these restrained and careful times When wild conceits were piled in scores, If we could dare to write as ill We are too diffident and nice, Too learned and too over-wise, Too much afraid of faults to be The flutes of bold sincerity. 1894 For, as this sweet life passes by, The green and scarlet of the Park, The pallid faces full of pain, Ah! how shall this be given to rhyme, EDMUND GOSSE |