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Algernon, Charles Swinburne 7 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London born 5 April 1837 and spent his boyhood at his parent’s home East Dene, in Bonchurch. He was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
He wrote ‘The Queen Mother’ in 1860 and Atalanta in Calydon, in 1865. Swinburne was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1903 to 1907 and again in 1909. He wrote verse drama, poetry, criticism and major collections including:
Verse drama
The Queen Mother (1860)
Rosamond (1860)
Chastelard (1865)
Bothwell (1874)
Mary Stuart (1881)
Marino Faliero (1885)
Locrine (1887)
The Sisters (1892)
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards (1899)
Poetry
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)†
Poems and Ballads (1866)
Songs Before Sunrise (1871)
Songs of Two Nations (1875)
Erechtheus (1876)†
Poems and Ballads, Second Series (1878)
Songs of the Springtides (1880)
Studies in Song (1880)
The Heptalogia, or the Seven against Sense. A Cap with Seven Bells (1880)
Tristram of Lyonesse (1882)
A Century of Roundels (1883)
A Midsummer Holiday and Other
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