Poetry Classics: Algernon Charles Swinburne

by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Ian Hamilton

Swinburne was born in 1836 and educated at Balliol, Oxford. He associated with the pre-Raphaelites, sharing a house with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and writing his most celebrated works. He then fell into alcoholism, but was saved from this by Theodore Watts-Dunton. This is a selection of his poetry.

96 pages, Hardcover

Published October 27, 1999

About the author

In musical, often erotic verse, British poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote and attacked the conventions of Victorian morality.

This controversial Englishman in his own day invented the roundel form and some novels and contributed to the famous eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerno...

Reviews

[Shinldk69 · Rating 5 out of 5]

je suis tellement amoureuse de l'écriture de Swinburne