Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Standard Name: Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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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.
v
Residence Alison Uttley
She was excited by her first experience of the south, and called Cambridge a city of light.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
65
As a teacher in London, she lived first at 164 Engadine Street in Southfields, south-west London...
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
Reception Sappho
In England, Swinburne helped promote a newly sexualized and aestheticized Sappho with Anactoria in Poems and Ballads (1866).
Reception Laurence Hope
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes the influence of Swinburne and the Pre-Raphaelites on this and later volumes by LH .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She wrote later that the idea for this book came to her when love-poems, which she had printed in journals but deliberately not included in Maurine, aroused strong interest and requests for copies. Jansen and McClurg
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
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...
Literary responses Emily Lawless
Algernon Swinburne wrote Lawless a gushing letter on reading Grania, describing it as one of the most exquisite and perfect works in the language—unique in pathos, humour, and convincing persuasion of truthfulness.
Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
76
, pp. 80-100.
85
J. M. Synge
Literary responses Anna Steele
The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book.
The Academy.
11 (3 February 1877): 91
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...
Literary responses Christina Rossetti
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...
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...
Literary responses Mary Louisa Molesworth
MLM had the habit of reading her stories to her own children from manuscripts tucked inside the covers of printed books, so that she would be able to solicit their opinion and know them to...

Timeline

1880: Sabine Baring-Gould's novel Mehalah, published...

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1880

Sabine Baring-Gould 's novelMehalah, published this year, was compared by Swinburne to Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights.

By 22 July 1882: Algernon Charles Swinburne published Tristram...

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By 22 July 1882

Algernon Charles Swinburne published Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems.

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