Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)

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Victorian English poet

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This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "A. C. S."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "A. C. S."

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Works

Criticism

• William Blake: A Critical Essay (1868)
• The Age of Shakespeare (1908)

Fiction

• "Dead Love" in Once a Week, Series 1, 7 (1862)
• "The Portrait" (1909)

Poems

• "The Fratricide" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862)
• Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
• Chastelard, a tragedy (1865)
• "Cor Cordium" (1871)
• "Hertha" (1871)
• "Epicede" in Littell's Living Age, 130 (1674) (1876)
• "Barry Cornwall" in Littell's Living Age, 138 (1781) (1878)
• "Ode to Gautier" in Littell's Living Age, 144 (1863) (1880)
• "On a Country Road" in Littell's Living Age, 162 (2092) (1884)
• "To Richard F. Burton, on His Translation of the Arabian Nights" (1886)

Collections of poems

Astrophel and Other Poems

• Astrophel
• A Nympholept
• On the South Coast
• An Autumn Vision
• A Swimmer's Dream
• Grace Darling
• Loch Torridon
• The Palace of Pan
• A Year's Carols
• England: an Ode
• Eton: an Ode
• The Union
• East to West
• Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal
• On the Death of Richard Burton
• Elegy
• A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
• Sunset and Moonrise
• Birthday Ode
• Threnody
• The Ballad of Melicertes
• Au Tombeau de Banville
• Light: an Epicede
• Threnody
• A Dirge
• A Reminiscence
• Via Dolorosa
  • Transfiguration
  • Deliverance
  • Thanksgiving
  • Libitina Verticordia
  • The Order of Release
  • Psychagogos
  • The Last Word
• In Memory of Aurelio Saffi
• The Festival of Beatrice
• The Monument of Giordano Bruno
• Life in Death
• Epicede
• Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott
• An Old Saying
• A Moss-Rose
• To a Cat
• Hawthorn Dyke
• The Brothers
• Jacobite Song
• The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay
• Dedication

A Century of Roundels

• In Harbour
• The Way of the Wind
• 'Had I Wist'
• Recollections
• Time and Life
• A Dialogue
• Plus Ultra
• A Dead Friend
• Past Days
• Autumn and Winter
• The Death of Richard Wagner
• Two Preludes

• Lohengrin
• Tristan und Isolde

• The Lute and the Lyre
• Plus Intra
• Change
• A Baby's Death
• One of Twain
• Death and Birth
• Birth and Death
• Benediction
• Étude Réaliste
• Babyhood
• First Footsteps
• A Ninth Birthday
• Not a Child
• To Dora Dorian
• The Roundel
• At Sea
• Wasted Love
• Before Sunset
• A Singing Lesson
• Flower-pieces

• Love Lies Bleeding
• Love in a Mist

• Three Faces

• Ventimiglia
• Genoa
• Venice

• Eros
• Sorrow
• Sleep
• On an Old Roundel
• A Landscape by Courbet
• A Flower-piece by Fantin
• A Night-piece by Millet
• 'Marzo Pazzo'
• Dead Love
• Discord
• Concord
• Mourning
• Aperotos Eros
• To Catullus
• 'Insularum Ocelle'
• In Sark
• In Guernsey
• Envoi

Laus Veneris, and Other Poems and Ballads

• Laus Veneris
• A Ballad of Life
• A Ballad of Death
• Phædra
• The Triumph of Time
• Les Noyades
• A Leave-taking
• Itylus
• Anactoria
• Hymn to Proserpine
• Ilicet
• Hermaphroditus
• Fragoletta
• Rondel
• Satia te Sanguine
• A Litany
• A Lamentation
• Anima Anceps
• In the Orchard
• A Match
• Faustine
• A Cameo
• Song Before Death
• Rococo
• Stage Love
• The Leper
• A Ballad of Burdens
• Rondei
• Before the Mirror
• Erotion
• In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
• A Song in Time of Order
• A Song in Time of Revolution
• To Victor Hugo
• Before Dawn
• Dolores
• The Garden of Proserpine
• Hesperia
• Love at Sea
• April
• Before Parting
• The Sundew
• Felise
• An Interlude
• Hendecasyllabics
• Sapphics
• At Eleusis
• August
• A Christmas Carol
• The Masque of Queen Bersabe
• St. Dorothy
• The Two Dreams
• Aholibah
• Love and Sleep
• Madonna Mia
• The King's Daughter
• After Death
• May Janet
• The Bloody Son
• The Sea-swallows
• The Year of Love
• Dedication

Contributions to EB9

• “Tourneur, Cyril” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).

Contributions to EB1911

• "Beaumont and Fletcher," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Chapman, George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Congreve, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Hugo, Victor Marie," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Keats, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Landor, Walter Savage," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Marlowe, Christopher," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Mary, Queen of Scots," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Tourneur, Cyril," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Webster, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Swinburne

• Swinburne as Poet by T. S. Eliot
• "Swinburne, Algernon Charles," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• The Swinburne Controversy, James Thomson (B.V.)
• "A. C. Swinburne," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
• "Swinburne, Algernon Charles," in Dictionary of National Biography Second Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1912) in 3 vols.