Algernon Charles Swinburne

MPD recreates the odd household of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne in Putney, the backwoods of West London, and a house called The Pines. Swinburne's imprudences had reduced his health and finances and made...

From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson

The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family...

Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) spent Easter at Richard Monckton Milnes 's home, where she met Swinburne .

ATR and her sister were educated by a series of governesses in London. It was not until the arrival of Miss Truelock in 1850 that their father was finally satisfied with a governess's ability...

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...

Praise for this second public collection was more muted and criticism more probing than before. John Westland Marston , reviewing this volume too for the Athenæum, was still positive, but regretted that most of...

CR 's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong...

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

In England, Swinburne helped promote a newly sexualized and aestheticized Sappho with Anactoria in Poems and Ballads (1866).

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...

ES was taken on holiday in the year after her mother died, by Captain and Lady Jane Swinburne (parents of the young Algernon Charles Swinburne ), to the Lakes of Westmorland and Capheaton in Northumberland.

It records a trip through Westmorland and Northumberland taken with a family group that included the young Algernon Charles Swinburne .

As Marsh puts it, this deeply transgressive act has since then been a symbol of religious, poetic and personal violation.

The poems attracted little attention initially, except for their connection to ES 's life. Swinburne was unusual in his estimation of her as a veritable artist in her own right. He discerned in A Year...