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Swinburne (ALGERNON CHARLES an English)

ALGERNON CHARLES, an English poet and essayist, son of Admiral Charles Henry Swinburne; born in London, England, 1837; was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. His first productions were "Queen Mother" and "Rosamund" (1861). They wero followed by two tragedies: "Atalanta in Calydon" (1864), and "Chastelard" (1865), and by "Poems and Ballads" SWINBURNE (1866), reprinted as "Laus Veneris"; "A A Song g of Italy" (1867); "William Blake," a critical essay (1867); "Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic, Sept. 4, 1870"; "Songs Before Sunrise" (1871); "Bothwell," a tragedy (1874); ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE "Notes on Charlotte Brontë" (1877); "Mary Stuart: a Tragedy" (1881); "Tristram of Lyonesse" (1882); "A Century of Roundels" (1883); "Marino Faliero: a Tragedy" (1885); "A Study of Victor Hugo" (1886); a collection of essays and criticisms under the title of "Miscellanies" (1886); a poem on the "Armada" (1888); "A Study of Ben Jonson" (1890); "Astrophel, and Other Poems" ( (1894); "Studies in Prose and Poetry" (1894); "The Tale of Balen" (1896); and "Rosamund" (1899). He died April 10, 1909.