Algernon Charles Swinburne Poetry: British Analysis.
Best known for his sexually provocative Poems and Ballards Algernon Charles Swinburne was much admired throughout the nineteenth century for his daring subject matter and superb poetic craftmanship. This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections - Poems and Ballards (1866), Songs before Sunrise (1871) and Poems and.
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Algernon Swinburne, Dissolute Poet. By Ciaran Conliffe Last updated Dec 19, 2016. Share Swinburne and his sisters, in 1843, by George Richmond. Source. Algernon Charles Swinburne was born in a suburb of London in April 1837, a few months before Victoria took the throne. One of his grandfathers was an earl, and another was a baronet, his father was a Captain in the Royal Navy who would become.
This personal care extended Swinburne's life by 30 years, during which he wrote astute criticism of Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Blake, and Victor Hugo (cf. Essays and Studies (1875)) as well as two novels, A Year's Letters (1877), reissued in 1905 as Love's Cross Currents, and Lesbia Brandon (1952). Swinburne never married. He died 10 April 1909.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and literary critic. He invented the roundel verse form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Swinburne, son of Admiral Swinburne and of Lady Jane Ashburnham (daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ashburnham), was born in London, received his early education in France.
Algernon Charles Swinburne. Throughout his career, Swinburne also published literary criticism of great acuity. His familiarity with a wide range of world literatures contributed to a critical style rich in quotation, allusion, and comparison. He is particularly noted for discerning studies of Elizabethan dramatists and of many English and French poets and novelists. In response to.