Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Standard Name: Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Mathilde Blind
In 1849, the year of his marriage, he was despatched to Paris to represent the newly formed German republican government . Following the collapse of the revolution, he became a political refugee in Belgium, and...
Friends, Associates Mathilde Blind
Other important friends include Dr Louis Mond , the American Moncure Conway (who had lost a position at Harvard for preaching against slavery), Richard Garnett (who began calling her by her first name in 1870)...
Reception Mathilde Blind
Again, however, the Athenæum had a reservation: this time the influence of Swinburne , which it detected in alliteration and other points of technique.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3221 (20 July 1889): 87
Literary responses Mathilde Blind
The article brought her some prominence. Swinburne found the new readings most precious.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Swinburne Letters. Editor Lang, Cecil Y., Yale University Press.
2: 116
Her close friendship with Ford Madox Brown and his family grew out of the piece, and her descriptions of scenery...
Education Ann Bridge
As a small child she stood out among the family for her quite exceptional naughtiness, which in later years she put down to surplus energy and dramatic ideas.
Bridge, Ann. A Family of Two Worlds. Macmillan.
141
When she began regular lessons, and...
Literary responses Emily Brontë
This bowdlerized version of EB 's novel and her poetry circulated widely and received many reviews. H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum pronounced the re-publication of the two novels an illustration of English female genius...
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...
Occupation Robert Williams Buchanan
RWB was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. After arriving in London in 1859, he was engaged by the Athenæum. He wrote for several other periodicals, and became known for his attacks on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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.
v
Occupation Marie Corelli
Charles MacKay , now finding it difficult to write, became increasingly pressed to procure a healthy income. Fortunately, one of his physicians was impressed with MC 's piano-playing and he offered his drawing-room for a...
Friends, Associates Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD considered William Heinemann , her publisher, as also a close personal friend.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
51, 77, 187
She once attended a party in St John's Wood at the house of Karl Blind (stepfather of the poet...
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...
Literary responses George Eliot
On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever
Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble.
131
), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...

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.