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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne 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).
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culture · English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909) · poet · writer · literary critic · also Algernon Charles Swinburne, Algernon Charles Swiburne, Algernon Swinburne, Swinburne
Born 5 April 1837 · Died 10 April 1909 · Q315511
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I have got a tiny new book of songs or songlets, in one form and all manner of metres ... just coming out, of which Miss Rossetti has accepted the dedication. I hope you and Georgie [his wife Georgiana, one of the MacDonald sisters] will find something to like among a hundred poems of nine lines each, twenty-four of which are about babies or small children
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1909· 1 entry
Died 1909-04-10.
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1908· 1 entry
Was one of the main candidates considered for the prize, and was nominated again in 1909
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1892· 1 entry
Swinburne was considered for the post of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, but was disqualified by Queen Victoria on moral grounds
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1883· 1 entry
“I have got a tiny new book of songs or songlets, in one form and all manner of metres ... just coming out, of which Miss Rossetti has accepted the dedication. I hope you and Georgie [his wife Georgiana, one of the MacDonald sisters] will find something to like among a hundred poems of nine lines each, twenty-four of which are about babies or small children”
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1879· 1 entry
At the age of 42, he was taken into care by his friend, Theodore Watts-Dunton, who looked after him for the rest of his life at The Pines, 11 Putney Hill, Putney
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1861· 1 entry
Swinburne visited Menton on the French Riviera, staying at the Villa Laurenti to recover from the excessive use of alcohol
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1860· 1 entry
Swinburne stayed with William Bell Scott in Newcastle
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1859· 1 entry
For publicly supporting the attempted assassination of Napoleon III by Felice Orsini
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1837· 1 entry
Born 1837-04-05.
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