Algernon Charles Swinburne

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...

A. S. Byatt finds in this volume a mournful Arcadian tone, thinly ecstatic, and owing much to Swinburne and Housman .

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

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...

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...

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. When she began regular lessons, and...

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...

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)...

Again, however, the Athenæum had a reservation: this time the influence of Swinburne , which it detected in alliteration and other points of technique.

The article brought her some prominence. Swinburne found the new readings most precious.Her close friendship with Ford Madox Brown and his family grew out of the piece, and her descriptions of scenery...

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...