Daneben hat Alfred Austin eine Menge literarischer Essays verfasst, deren hauptsächlichstes in dem lesenswerten, doch nicht unparteiischen Werk "The poetry of the period" (1870) gesammelt erschienen. ###>In 1870 he published a volume of criticism, "The Poetry of the Period", which was conceived in the spirit of satire, and attacked Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold and Swinburne in an unrestrained fashion.