THE SEABOARD.
The sea is at ebb, and the sound of her utmost word
Is soft as the least wave’s lapse in a still
small reach.
From bay into bay, on quest of a goal deferred,
From headland ev...
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The English poet, dramatist, and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was famous in Victorian England for the innovative versification of his poetry and infamous for his violent attacks on Vi...
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Algernon Charles Swinburne is justly regarded as the major Victorian poet most profoundly at odds with his age and as one of the most daring, innovative, and brilliant lyricists to ever write in Engli...
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As he was in his own time, Algernon Charles Swinburne is now principally esteemed as a poet rather than as a writer of prose. But during the half century of his literary career Swinburne wrote and had...
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Biography EssayAlgernon Charles Swinburne is justly regarded as the major Victorian poet most profoundly at odds with his age and as one of the most daring, innovative, and brilliant lyricists to ever...
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A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne