Swinburne, Algernon Charles (M)

Surname: Swinburne
Forename(s): Algernon Charles
b. 5 April 1837. d. 10 April 1909. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Prominent poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. Pseudonyms: W, Mrs Horace Manners, Etonensis. Associated with Pre-Raphaelitism. Met Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites during his time at Oxford. Lifelong friends with William Michael Rossetti. Acquainted with Richard Monckton Milne, Simeon Solomon, and Theodore Watts-Dunton. Reputed by his contemporaries to be sexually non-normative; Swinburne himself started rumours alleging his own homosexual relationships and acts of bestiality. Publications include Poems and Ballads (1866). Biographical information: ODNB; Victorian Web. (CC, BGL)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 26
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Fratricide. (Finnish) 1862-02-15 Once a Week Poet 879
Cleopatra 1866-09 The Cornhill Magazine Poet 12206
Danaë 1867-12-07 Once a Week Poet 13579
The End of a Month 1871-04 The Dark Blue Poet 166
Sestina 1872-01-06 Once a Week Poet 13952
“The only way to criticize it is” 1884-04 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8111
“I must observe moreover that it was” 1884-04 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8108
On a Country Road 1884-07 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8163
The Jubilee. 1887 1887-06 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8235
March: An Ode 1888-03 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8262
“Ask nothing more of me, sweet” 1891-12 Atalanta Poet 12840
Threnody (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, October 6, 1892) 1893-01 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8593
The Union 1893-05 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8449
The Palace of Pan (Inscribed to my Mother) 1893-10 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8462
Elegy 1894-03 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8564
Carnot 1894-07 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8639
Delphic Hymn to Apollo (B. C. 280) Done into English by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1894-08 The Nineteenth Century Translator 8641
To a Baby Kinswoman 1894-12 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8642
A New Year’s Eve. Christina Rossetti died December 29, 1894 1895-02 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8653
Cromwell’s Statue 1895-07 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8654
Trafalgar Day 1895-11 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8655
A Roundel of Rabelais 1896 Pageant Translator 1084
Robert Burns 1896-02 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8656
For Greece and Crete 1897-03 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8672
Prologue to ‘The Duchess of Malfy’ 1899-01 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8724
After the Verdict September 1899 1899-10 The Nineteenth Century Poet 8725