Algernon Charles Swinburne
Also known as Algernon Swinburne, Algernon Charles Swiburne
English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)
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Algernon Charles Swinburne was an influential English poet, playwright, and novelist who lived from 1837 to 1909 and helped shape Victorian literature through his distinctive voice and style. He is significant because his work challenged conventional literary and social norms of his time, making him an important figure in understanding 19th-century English literature.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (London, 5 April 1837 – London, 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in every year from 1903 to 1907 and again in 1909. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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- “Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.”
- “The small dark body's Lesbian lovelinessThat held the fire eternal.”
- “Sweet Love, that art so bitter.”
- “There was a bad poet named Clough,Whom his friends all united to puff.But the public, though dull,Has not quite such a skullAs belongs to believers in Clough.”
- “I can truly say with Shelley that I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends.”
- “God by God flits past in thunder, till His glories turn to shades; God to God bears wondering witness how His gospel flames and fades. More was each of these, yet they were, than man their servant seemed: Dead are all of these, and man survives who made them while he dreamed.”
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He was a major contributor to the Pre-Raphaelite movement in poetry, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. His greatest works are the verse drama Atalanta in Calydon (1865), written in the form of an Ancient Greek tragedy, and his Pre-Raphaelite Poems and Ballads (1866).
In his poetry, Swinburne rebelled against the Christian morality of the Victorian era, drawing from classical, medieval, and Renaissance sources to explore atheism in "Hymn to Proserpine", suicide in "The Triumph of Time", lesbian desire in "Anactoria", and sado-masochism in "Dolores". While Swinburne's work attracted scandal, it had prominent Victorian defenders, including John Ruskin.