Algernon Charles Swinburne. Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic.
He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopędia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism.
His poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death. Several historical people are featured in his poems, such as Sappho, Anactoria, Jesus and Catullus.
Swinburne was born at 7 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, on 5 April 1837. He was the eldest of six children born to Captain Charles Henry Swinburne and Lady Jane Henrietta, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, a wealthy Northumbrian family.
He grew up at East Dene in Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight. As a child, Swinburne was nervous and frail, but was also fired with nervous energy and fearlessness to the point of being reckless. Swinburne attended Eton College, where he started writing poetry. At Eton, he won first prizes in French and Italian. He attended Balliol College, Oxford with a brief hiatus when he was rusticated from the university in 1859 for having publicly supported the attempted assassination of Napoleon III by Felice Orsini. He returned in May 1860, though he never received a degree. Swinburne spent summer holidays at Capheaton Hall in Northumber
He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopędia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism.
His poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death. Several historical people are featured in his poems, such as Sappho, Anactoria, Jesus and Catullus.
Swinburne was born at 7 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, on 5 April 1837. He was the eldest of six children born to Captain Charles Henry Swinburne and Lady Jane Henrietta, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, a wealthy Northumbrian family.
He grew up at East Dene in Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight. As a child, Swinburne was nervous and frail, but was also fired with nervous energy and fearlessness to the point of being reckless. Swinburne attended Eton College, where he started writing poetry. At Eton, he won first prizes in French and Italian. He attended Balliol College, Oxford with a brief hiatus when he was rusticated from the university in 1859 for having publicly supported the attempted assassination of Napoleon III by Felice Orsini. He returned in May 1860, though he never received a degree. Swinburne spent summer holidays at Capheaton Hall in Northumber
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