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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

(1837-04-05)5 April 1837
London, England

10 April 1909(1909-04-10) (aged 72)
London, England

Poet, playwright, novelist and critic

Eton College

Balliol College, Oxford

Victorian era

Decadent movement, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Poems and Ballads

Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common motifs, such as the Ocean, Time, and Death. Several historical people are featured in his poems, such as Sappho ("Sapphics"), Anactoria ("Anactoria"), and Catullus ("To Catullus").[1]

The Queen Mother (1860)

Rosamond (1860)

Chastelard (1865)

Bothwell (1874)

Mary Stuart (1881)

Marino Faliero (1885)

Locrine (1887)

The Sisters (1892)

Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards (1899)

also called Charly. Daniel Keyes paid homage to Algernon Charles Swinburne

Flowers for Algernon

(1881), a Gilbert-and-Sullivan opera that satirizes Swinburne and his poetry

Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride

(1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 2.

Joshi, S. T.

(1974). Swinburne: The Portrait of a Poet. Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Henderson, Philip

Hyder, Clyde K. (editor, 1970). Swinburne. The Critical Heritage. Routledge & Kegan Paul.

(1971). At the Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney. Hamish Hamilton.

Panter-Downes, Mollie

(1979). Swinburne: The Poet in his World. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Thomas, Donald

Leith, Mrs. Disney. (1917). Algernon Charles Swinburne, Personal Recollections by his Cousin - With excerpts from some of his personal letters. London and New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Swinburne, Algernon (1919). Gosse, Edmund; Wise, Thomas, eds., , Volumes 1–6, New York: John Lane Company.

The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1889). . Chatto and Windus.

Poems and Ballads: First Series

Rooksby, Rikky (1997). A C Swinburne: A Poet's Life. Aldershot: Scolar Press.

Louis, Margot Kathleen (1990). Swinburne and His Gods: the Roots and Growth of an Agnostic Poetry. Mcgill-Queens University Press.

(1972). Swinburne: An Experiment in Criticism. University of Chicago Press.

McGann, Jerome

(1965). The Crowns of Apollo: Swinburne's Principles of Literature and Art: a Study in Victorian Criticism and Aesthetics. Wayne State University Press.

Peters, Robert

Anonymous (1873). . Illustrated by Frederick Waddy. London: Tinsley Brothers. pp. 48–49.

Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day

Wakeling, E; Hubbard, T; Rooksby, R (2008). Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne by their contemporaries. London: Pickering & Chatto, 3 vols.

(1911). "Swinburne, Algernon Charles" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 234–235.

Gosse, Edmund William

(1912). "Swinburne, Algernon Charles" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Gosse, Edmund William

Rooksby, Rikky. "Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909)". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36389. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

at Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)

Works by Algernon Swinburne

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Algernon Charles Swinburne

Poetry of at the Poetry Foundation.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Algernon Charles Swinburne

in T. S. Eliot's essay "Imperfect Critics", collected in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, 1922.

"Swinburne as Critic"

Archival material at

Leeds University Library

a eulogy by A. E. Housman

Swinburne

(subscription required) Swinburne's genealogy.

Stirnet: Swinburne02

Max Beerbohm's memoir of Swinburne.

No. 2. The Pines

: A digital archive of the life and works of Algernon Charles Swinburne.

The Swinburne Project

at the Harry Ransom Center

Algernon Charles Swinburne Collection

. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Algernon Swinburne Collection