b. 1837d. 1909
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English writer, known as the inventor of a poetic form called the "roundel" as well as a famous contributor to the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Image: Algernon Charles Swinburne, portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1860
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Swinburne’s poetry has been set in classic art song and choral works by several American poets, including Miriam Gideon, Victor Herbert, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Clara Kathleen Rogers, and Leo Smit.
Related Information
Poetry Foundation
poetryfoundation.org/poets/algernon-charles-swinburneThe Swinburne Project
swinburnearchive.indiana.edu/swinburneVictorian Web
victorianweb.org/authors/swinburne/index.htmlBooks
Poems and Ballads and Atalanta in Calydon (Penguin Classics)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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