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Haply, of lovers none ever will know,
Whose eyes went seaward a hundred sleeping
Years ago

最近极其喜欢的一个作家，Algernon Charles Swinburne



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Born in London the son of an admiral, Swinburne spent his childhood years on the Isle of Wight. He was educated in France, Eton and Balliol College Oxford, although he failed to graduate. Closely involved with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Holman and William Morris, he lived in the bizarre household in Cheyne Walk with Rossetti and George Meredith for a while and no doubt was influenced by this association. Other influences were his interest in classical literature, the Bible and the Sea. While he had had plays published and some evidence of poetic voice, his first serious poetic excursion was with Poems and Ballads in 1866. It provoked quite a response form the hypocritical Victorian establishment and he received a scathing review from John Morley - 'libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs'. Unquestionably, Swinburne's work made a break with the Victorian lyricism of Tennyson et al and he was, perhaps, the first true modern poet in terms of the content of his work.

He was a prolific writer of poetry, plays and novels. Notable works were Ave Atque Vale, a tribute to Baudelaire and Poems and Ballads: Second Series.

Rescued from alcoholism and almost certainly an early grave by Theodore Watts-Dunton in 1879, Swinburne continued to write continuously and his output was truly impressive. He also took up literary criticism and wrote on Baudelaire, Blake, Hugo, Byron and many others. The criticism was vvariable in quality and ranged from incisive erudition to simply unjustified attacks. He remained with Watts-Dunton in Putney until his death in 1909.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (London, April 5, 1837 - London, April 10, 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in every year from 1903-1907 and again in 1909.[