Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Standard Name: Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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Violence Elizabeth Siddal
As Marsh puts it, this deeply transgressive act has since then been a symbol of religious, poetic and personal violation.
Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books.
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Rossetti himself justified his action to Swinburne as follows: no one so much as...
Travel Anne Ogle
By 17 August 1858 AO was part of a large party staying at Wallington, the house belonging to Swinburne 's patron, Lady Pauline Trevelyan . During this stay, Ogle and Swinburne seem to have established a friendship.
Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
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, No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella Hepworth Dixon
In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sara Jeannette Duncan
The novel concerns an American writer, Elfrida Bell, from Sparta, Illinois, who is seen as a product of the fin-de-siècle. Her role as a francophile who champions the poetry of Rossetti and Swinburne places...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
As translator of Maeterlinck , LAT signed (with Yeats , Meredith , Swinburne , Hardy , Arthur Symons , Lucas Malet , John Oliver Hobbes, and others) a letter to the Times protesting against...
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
EF kept up her talent for pastiche. In 1915 she produced versions of It's a long way to Tipperary in the respectives styles of Whitman , Burns , Rossetti , Herrick , Swinburne , and Tom Moore .
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
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Textual Production Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD published a biography about the domestic life of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton , entitled At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1973
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott 's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins.
Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman.
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Other titles in this volume...
Textual Features Edna Lyall
The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has...
Textual Features Helen Mathers
As editor of The Burlington, HM recruited authors such as Edward Aveling , A. C. Swinburne , and Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde . She contributed serial novels, short stories and editorial articles herself.
North, John S., editor. The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900. http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/series2/defaultLoggedIn.asp.
She...
Textual Features A. Mary F. Robinson
In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...
Textual Features Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
The historical Sappho had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne ; Michael Field 's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the...
Textual Features Elizabeth Sewell
It records a trip through Westmorland and Northumberland taken with a family group that included the young Algernon Charles Swinburne .
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Textual Features Willa Cather
A. S. Byatt finds in this volume a mournful Arcadian tone, thinly ecstatic, and owing much to Swinburne and Housman .
Byatt, A. S., and Willa Cather. “Introduction”. A Lost Lady, Virago, p. v - xiv.
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Timeline

By 3 March 1470: Sir Thomas Malory, a political prisoner in...

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By 3 March 1470

Sir Thomas Malory , a political prisoner in London, most probably in the Tower, finished compiling and writing his collection of legendaryArthurian romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.

7 September 1838: Grace Darling, twenty-two-year-old daughter...

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7 September 1838

Grace Darling , twenty-two-year-old daughter of the lighthouse-keeper of the Longstone light on the Outer Farne Islands off the Northumbrian coast, helped her father row out in a clumsy boat through heavy seas to rescue...

1855: John Camden Hotten, newly back from some...

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1855

John Camden Hotten , newly back from some seven years in America, established his own bookshop at 151b Piccadilly, London.

1860: The Queen Mother; Rosamund (two plays) appeared...

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1860

The Queen Mother; Rosamund (two plays) appeared this year as Algernon Charles Swinburne 's first publication.

1865: Albert Moore exhibited his painting The Marble...

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1865

Albert Moore exhibited his painting The Marble Seat, which was noted for its resemblance to the Elgin Marbles.

March 1865: Algernon Charles Swinburne published his...

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March 1865

Algernon Charles Swinburne published his well-received poetic dramaAtalanta in Calydon, based on Greek myth.

November 1865: Algernon Charles Swinburne published a five-act...

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November 1865

Algernon Charles Swinburne published a five-act poetic drama about Mary Queen of Scots , Chastelard.

By 4 August 1866: Algernon Charles Swinburne published his...

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By 4 August 1866

Algernon Charles Swinburne published his first series of Poems and Ballads; it included Dolores.

Later 1866: Robert Williams Buchanan published an essay...

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Later 1866

Robert Williams Buchanan published an essay on Immorality in Authorship in the Fortnightly Review, and, under the pseudonym of Caliban in the Spectator, attacked Swinburne in a poem called The Session of the Poets.

1868: Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing...

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1868

Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing career by issuing (in a single volume) parts one and two of William Morris 's poem or series of poems The Earthly Paradise.

By 4 January 1868: William Blake: A Critical Essay by Algernon...

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By 4 January 1868

William Blake : A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne appeared.

By 14 January 1871: Algernon Charles Swinburne published Songs...

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By 14 January 1871

Algernon Charles Swinburne published Songs Before Sunrise, a collection of poems.

16 May 1871: Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet...

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16 May 1871

Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet Hamilton King ) set up the publishing firm H. S. King and Co. at 65 Cornhill, London; taken over by Charles Kegan Paul in 1877, it...

October 1871: Robert Williams Buchanan published in the...

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October 1871

Robert Williams Buchanan published in the Contemporary Review, under the pseudonym Thomas Maitland, his critique of what he dubbed The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D. G. Rossetti.

1876: The conflict over the morality and aesthetics...

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1876

The conflict over the morality and aesthetics of verse between Robert Williams Buchanan and Algernon Charles Swinburne came to a head in a libel suit.

Texts

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Note”. Aurora Leigh, Smith, Elder, 1898, p. vii - xiv.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Swinburne Replies. Editor Hyder, Clyde Kenneth, Syracuse University Press, 1966.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Swinburne Letters. Editor Lang, Cecil Y., Yale University Press, 1962.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Editor Meyers, Terry L., Pickering and Chatto, 2005.