Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (born 1837)

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)

Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He was a major contributor to the Pre-Raphaelite movement in poetry, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. His greatest works are the verse drama Atalanta in Calydon (1865), written…