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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: 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