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Writer's pictureSue Lowday

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Victorian Poet

From " The Outline of Literature"






I found these pages in an old subscription publication covering Literature, Art, etc. I thought the content might be a bit fusty as it was written by John Drinkwater around 1920. However, I think it is a good read with lovely examples of Swinburne's poetry. Having read the piece, I am surprised his poems aren't celebrated more.


In Swinburne's lifetime, he was considered the equivalent of Byron and perhaps Mick Jagger, as he mixed with some of the great and not-so-good of the day.

He is buried at the Parish Church in Bonchurch with all his family in very distinguished tombs in the graveyard.












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