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.
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Swinburne in 1865![NPG P416. Swinburne with nine of his peers at Oxford, ca. 1850s (Left to right: 1. Joseph Frank Payne, standing; 2. George Rankine Luke, sitting; 3. John Warneford Hoole, standing; 4. Swinburne, sitting; 5. Thomas Hill Green, standing; 6. John Nichol, sitting; 7. James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, standing; 8. Albert Venn Dicey, sitting; 9. Aeneas James George Mackay, standing; 10. Thomas Erskine Holland, sitting)[10]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne_with_nine_of_his_peers_at_Oxford%2C_ca._1850s.jpg/500px-Algernon_Charles_Swinburne_with_nine_of_his_peers_at_Oxford%2C_ca._1850s.jpg)
NPG P416. Swinburne with nine of his peers at Oxford, ca. 1850s (Left to right: 1. Joseph Frank Payne, standing; 2. George Rankine Luke, sitting; 3. John Warneford Hoole, standing; 4. Swinburne, sitting; 5. Thomas Hill Green, standing; 6. John Nichol, sitting; 7. James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, standing; 8. Albert Venn Dicey, sitting; 9. Aeneas James George Mackay, standing; 10. Thomas Erskine Holland, sitting)[10]
Swinburne's grave at St. Boniface Church, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, pictured in 2013
Laus Veneris (c. 1874) by Edward Burne-Jones, based on Swinburne's poem of the same name
Swinburne caricatured by Carlo Pellegrini in Vanity Fair, 1874
16 Cheyne Walk, home to Swinburne
Blue plaque at 16 Cheyne WalkIn their orbit 2
Writers born in the 1830s 6
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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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deceased
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Lived 1837 to 1909 · aged 72
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