Swinburne
Swinburne names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Swinburne WILLIAM THOMAS, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM THOMAS, an American naval officer, born at Newport, R. I., in 1847. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1866, and in the same year was appointed ensign. He served on various vessels and stations, and from 1886 to 1890 was on duty at the Naval Academy. He became lieutenant-commander in 1887, and was executive officer on the "Boston" from 1890 to 1893. In the latter year he commanded the battalion landed in Honolulu. After four years further service at the Naval Academy, he became commander in 1896. He served in the North Atlantic Fleet during the Spanish-American War, and took part in several engagements. In 1899 he joined the fleet at Manila under Admiral Dewey. He commanded warships, convoys, and troops to the Philippines in the year following. He was promoted to be captain in 1901, and rearadmiral in 1906. From 1906 to 1909 he was commander-in-chief of the Pacific Squadron. In the latter year he was commander of the Naval War College. He retired from active service in 1909.
Swinburne ALGERNON CHARLES, an English poet and essayist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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" (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.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 with Swinburne twelve years dead and his standing still high; the entry lists the poems and studies but says nothing of the scandal that made him famous, when the publisher withdrew "Poems and Ballads" in 1866 under attack for its eroticism and paganism, nor of the three decades of quiet, teetotal seclusion at Putney under the guardianship of Theodore Watts-Dunton after his health collapsed. Within a year of this account T. S. Eliot's essay "Swinburne as Poet" (in The Sacred Wood, 1920) helped set the modernist verdict that his verse was all sound and no substance, and his reputation fell further than that of any other major Victorian. He has been partly recovered since the 1960s, less as the Victorian sage Collier's implies than as a metrical virtuoso and a deliberate provocateur, with the sadomasochistic and anti-Christian strains in his work now discussed openly rather than passed over. The bibliography here remains broadly accurate, though a modern one would foreground the later Poems and Ballads series and the unfinished novel "Lesbia Brandon," first published in 1952.
Written for this edition, 2026.