The Algernon Charles Swinburne Page

( 1837-1909 )
I allow no one to laugh at Tennyson except myself.
Major Works
John D. Rosenberg has edited Selected Poetry and Prose, Random House, 1967, and Farrar Straus and Cudahy has published The Novels of A. C. Swinburne, 1963. A Year's Letters ( see below ) has been published in its original form under the editorship of F. J. Sypher (NYU, 1974).
The Queen-Mother; Rosamund ( 1860 ).
Atalanta in Calydon ( 1865 ).
Chastelard ( 1865 ). First of a dramatic trilogy.
Poems and Ballads. Three series. ( 1866; 1878; 1889 )
A Song of Italy ( 1867 ).
Songs Before Sunrise ( 1871 ).
Bothwell ( 1874 ). Second of the dramatic trilogy.
Erechtheus ( 1876 ).
A Year's Letters ( 1877 ); republished, 1905, under the title Love's Cross Currents.
A Study of Shakespeare ( 1880 ).
Mary Stuart ( 1881 ). Third of the dramatic trilogy.
Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems ( 1882 )
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems ( 1884 ).
Marino Faliero ( 1885 ).
A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning ( 1890 ).
The Tale of Balen ( 1896 ).
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards ( 1899 ).
Lesbia Brandon ( 1952 ). A novel
The Swinburne Letters. Edited by Cecil Y. Lang. Six Volumes. Yale, 1959-1962.

About Swinburne
Humphrey Hare, Swinburne: A Biographical Approach. Witherby, 1949.
Algernon Charles Swinburne from the Victorian Web.

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