Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Standard Name: Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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Intertextuality and Influence Anne Ogle
The novel ends with mention of the rioting rapids of the Tyne, a phrase that Swinburne borrowed to end his Tale of Balen (1896).
qtd. in
Myers, Alan. “Myers Literary Guide to North-East England”. Northumbria University: Centre for Northern Studies, 2004.
Intertextuality and Influence Ada Leverson
In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers...
Intertextuality and Influence Edith Sitwell
ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...
Intertextuality and Influence Amy Levy
AL acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley , Goethe , Heine , Robert Browning , Swinburne (whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson (the...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Faithfull
The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of...
Intertextuality and Influence Maggie Gee
MG was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing...
Literary responses Mary Louisa Molesworth
MLM had the habit of reading her stories to her own children from manuscripts tucked inside the covers of printed books, so that she would be able to solicit their opinion and know them to...
Literary responses E. Nesbit
When EN asked Bernard Shaw to review the first Lays and Legends for To-Day, he responded with a pretend review contained in a letter, a masterpiece in faint praise: The author has a fair...
Literary responses Sarah Williams
Geraldine Jewsbury wrote a review of Twilight Hours for the Athenæum in which she describes SW 's work as promising, but unfulfilled and melancholy. The review explains that her life . . . seems to...
Literary responses Mathilde Blind
The article brought her some prominence. Swinburne found the new readings most precious.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Swinburne Letters. Editor Lang, Cecil Y., Yale University Press, 1959–1962, 6 vols.
2: 116
Her close friendship with Ford Madox Brown and his family grew out of the piece, and her descriptions of scenery...
Literary responses Christina Rossetti
CR 's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong...
Literary responses Emily Brontë
This bowdlerized version of EB 's novel and her poetry circulated widely and received many reviews. H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum pronounced the re-publication of the two novels an illustration of English female genius...
Literary responses Emily Lawless
Algernon Swinburne wrote Lawless a gushing letter on reading Grania, describing it as one of the most exquisite and perfect works in the language—unique in pathos, humour, and convincing persuasion of truthfulness.
qtd. in
Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
76
, July 1914, pp. 80-100.
85
J. M. Synge
Literary responses Anna Steele
The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book.
The Academy.
11 (3 February 1877): 91
Literary responses George Eliot
On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever
qtd. in
Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971.
131
), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...

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