Who was Algernon Swinburne?
Poet, Critic and Writer.
Date and Place of Birth:
5th April 1837, Grosvenor Place,London, England.
Christened Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Family Background:
His father was an Admiral and his grandfather
was the Third Earl of Ashburnham.
Education:
Eton College. Balliol College, Oxford.
Chronology/Biography of Algernon Charles Swinburne:
Written Works:
- 1862: “Dead
Love”.
- 1865:
“Atalanta in Calydon”.
- 1866:
“Notes on Poems and Reviews”.
- 1867:
“A Song of Italy”.
- 1868:
“William Blake”. “Sienna”.
- 1870:
“Ode on the Proclamation of a French Republic”.
- 1871:
“Songs before Sunrise”.
- 1875:
“Songs of Two Nations”. “Essays and Studies”.
- 1876: “Erechtheus;
A Tragedy”.
- 1877:
“Charlotte Bronte”.
- 1878:
“Poems and Ballads”.
- 1880:
“Songs of the Springtides”. “Studies in Song”.
- 1881:
“Tristram of Lyonesse”.
- 1882:
“A Century of Roundel”.
- 1884: “A
Midsummer's Holiday”.
- 1885:
“Marino Faliero: A Tragedy”.
- 1887:
“The Question”.
- 1892:
“The sister s”.
- 1894:
“Studies in Prose and Poetry”.
- 1896:
“The Tale of Balen”.
- 1904:
“A Channel Passage”.
- 1905:
“Love's Crosscurrents”.
Marriage:
Never married.
Places of Interest:
Date and Place of Death:
12th April 1909, Putney, London, England.
Age at Death:
72.
Site of Grave:
St. Boniface's Church, Bonchurch, Isle-of-Wight.
