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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Male : Poet & Critic. From 1879 lived with Theodore Watts-Dunton. He is buried at Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1837 Date of Death : 1909 Age : 72

Education : Eton & Balliol College, Oxford (left without a degree)
Chatto & Windus unless stated
1860-1870
The Queen-Mother and Rosamund
(1860 Basil M Pickering)
[The book was withdrawn on the eve of publication after only 20 copies had been circulated
and then released by Moxon with a new title page]

Atlanta in Calydon
(1865 Moxon) - D G Rossetti (1866 Ticknor & Fields, Boston) - play
Chastelard : A Tragedy
(1865 Moxon) - 1000 (1868 Hotten 2nd Issue)
Poems and Ballads
(1866 Moxon)
Laus Veneris
(1866 Carleton, NY) - American edition of above
Poems and Ballads
(1866 John Camden Hotten)
Notes on Poems and Reviews
(1866 Hotten)
A Song of Italy
(1867 Hotten) - 3000
William Blake : A critical Essay
(1868 Hotten)
Siena
(1868 John Camden Hotten)
Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic
(1870 F S Ellis, London)

1871-1875
Songs Before Sunrise
(1871 F S Ellis) - 500
Under the Microscope
(1872 White)
Bothwell : A Tragedy
(1874) - 1500
George Chapman : A Critical Essay
(1875) - 500
Songs of Two Nations
(1875) - 1000
Essays and Studies
(1875)

1876-1880
Erechteus : A Tragedy
(1876) - 1500
Notes of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade
(1876) - 24pp
A Note on Charlotte Bronte
(1877)
Poems and Ballads - 2nd Series
(1878) - 1000 (1878 R Worthington, NY)
Songs of the Springtides
(1880) - 1500
Study of Shakespeare
(1880)
Studies in Song
(1880) - 1500
The Heptalogia
(1880) - issued anonymously

1881-1885
Mary Stuart : A Tragedy
(1881)
Tristram of Lyonesse & Other Poems
(1882) (1904 Thomas B Mosher, Maine - 450)
A Century of Roundels : Poems
(1883) - 1000 (1883 NY)
A Midsummer Holiday : Poems
(1884)
Marino Faliero : A Tragedy
(1885)

1886-1890
Miscellanies
(1886)
Study of Victor Hugo
(1886)
Locrine : A Tragedy
(1887) - 1250
A Study of Ben Jonson
(1889)
Poems and Ballads - 3rd Series
(1889) - 1000

1891-1900
The Sisters : A Tragedy
(1892) - 1250
Astrophel & Other Poems
(1894)
Studies in Prose and Poetry
(1894)
Felise : A Book of Lyrics
(1894 Mosher, US)
Atalanta in Calydon : A Tragedy
(1894 Kelmscott Press) - only 250 copies
The Tale of Balen
(1896)
Atlanta in Calydon
(1897 Mosher US)
Laus Veneris
(1897 Mosher US)
The Heptalogia
(1899 Mosher US)
Rosamund Queen of the Lombards : A Tragedy
(1899) (1899 Dodd Mead)

1901-1910
Under the Miscroscope
(1901 Mosher US)
Dead Love
(1901 Mosher US)
A Year's Letters
(1901 Mosher US)
Atlanta in Calydon & Lyrical Poems
(1901 Tauchnitz)
Poems and Ballads : 2nd & 3rd Series
(1902 Mosher US)
Tristram of Lyonesse
(1904 Mosher US)
A Song of Italy
(1904 Mosher US)
A Channel Passage
(1904)
The Poems
(1904) - 6 vols
The Tragedies
(1905-6) - 5 vols. 110
Love's Cross-Currents : A Year's Letters
(1905) (1905 Harper)
The Duke of Gandia
(1908) - 1500. 110 large paper Ed (1908 Harper NY)
Simeon Solomon : Notes on His Vision of Love
(1908 Mosher US)
Age of Shakespeare
(1908)
Songs Before Sunrise
(1909 Chatto & Windus for the Florence Press - 650)
Siena
(1910 Mosher US)
A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
(1910 Temple Press - 30 copies)

1911-1920
Border Ballads
(1912 Bibliophile Society, US - 477 copies)
Ode to Mazzini
(1913 Bibliophile Soc, US - 477 copies)
A Pilgrimage of Pleasure
(1913 Richard G Badger & The Gorham Press, US - 500 copies)
Charles Dickens
(1913)
Prelude to Songs before Sunrise
(1914 Mosher US)
Posthumous Poems
(1917 Heinemann)
Letters to Victor Hugo
(1917 PP by Clement Shorter) - 16pp. 25 copies
The Letters
(1918 Heinemann) - 2 vols. edited by Edmund Gosse & Thomas J Wise
The Springtide of Life : Poems of Childhood
(1918 Heinemann) (1918 Lippincott) - Arthur Rackham
+ 765 signed by Arthur Rackham
Contemporaries of Shakespeare
(1919 Heinemann) - edited by Edmund Gosse & Thomas J Wise

1921-1930
Atlanta in Calydon
(1923 Riccardi Press - 1025 copies)
Cleopatra
(1924 Swan Press - 25 copies)
Collected Poetical Works
(1924 Heinemann) - 2 vols
Bonchurch Collected Works
(1925-7 Heinemann) - 20 vols
Two Unpublished MSS
(1927 Grabhorn Press - 50 copies)
A Golden Book of Swinburne's Lyrics
(1927 Martin Hopkinson - 262 copies)
Selected Poems
(1928 John Lane, Bodley Head) (1928 Dodd Mead) - Harry Clarke
Laus Veneris
(1929 Kahoe, US - 50 copies)
Atlanta in Calydon
(1930 OUP - 500 copies)

1931-1950
Dolores
(1933 Maastrict - 50 copies)
Laus Veneris & other Lyrics
(1942 Peter Pauper Press - 1550 copies)
Lucretia Borgia : the Chronicle of Tebaldo Tebaldi
(1942 Golden Cockerel Press - 350)
- Reynolds Stone
Lucretia Borgia : the Chronicle of Tebaldo Tebaldi
(1942 Golden Cockerel Press - 50 copies de luxe) - Reynolds Stone
Hymn to Proserpine
(1944 Golden Cockerel Press - 350) - John Buckland-Wright
(1944 Golden Cockerel Press) - 50 de luxe. John Buckland-Wright
Laus Veneris
(1946 PP) - J Villon (1956 2nd Ed - 176 copies)
Laus Veneris
(1948 Golden Cockerel Press) - 750. John Buckland-Wright
(1948 Golden Cockerel Press) - 50 de luxe. John Buckland-Wright
Pasiphae : A Poem
(1950 Golden Cockerel Press) - 500. John Buckland-Wright

After 1951
Lesbia Brandon : An Historical and Critical Commentary
(1952 Falcon Press, London) - by Randolph Hughes
The Garden of Proserpine
(1961 Pandora Press) - 125 copies. - Rigby Graham
A Match
(1962 Pandora Press) - 125 copies
The Influence of the Roman Censorship
(1964 PP) - 50 copies
On the Duties of a University Towards the Nation
(1969 PP) - 1500 copies
Shelley
(1973 Achille J St Onge) - 500 copies
Swinburneiana
(1974 Waring Press) - 500 copies
Hide and Seek
(1975 Stourton Press) - 250 copies
A Child's Laughter
(1976 Fonthill Press) - 20 copies
The Statue of John Brute
(1978 Erlin Press) - 30 copies
On the Cliffs
(1980 King's Library) - 75 copies
Anactoria
(1989 Escutcheon Press) - 75 copies

READING
Theodore Wratislaw : Algernon Charles Swinburne : A Study
(1900 Greening, London)
J W Mackail : Swinburne - A Lecture
(1909 Clarendon Press)
Mrs Disney Leith : The Boyhood of Algernon Charles Swinburne
(1917 Chatto & Windus)
Thomas James Wise : A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose & Verse of Swinburne
(1919-20 London) (1966 Dawsons, London) - 2 vols
Flora V Livingston : Swinburne's Proof Sheets & American First editions
(1920 Cambridge, US)
Edmund Gosse : Swinburne - An Essay Written in 1875
(1925 Riverside Press - 125 copies)
Harold Nicolson : Swinburne and Baudelaire
(1930 Clarendon Press)
Sir Herbert J C Grierson : Swinburne
(1953 Longmans Green)
Jean Overton Fuller : Swinburne - A critical Biography
(1968 Chatto & Windus)
Jerome K McGann : Swinburne - An Experiment in Criticism
(1972 Chicago UP £5.40)
Richard Turley & R J Hutchings : Young Algernon Swinburne
(1978 Hunnyhill Press)
Kirk H Beetz : Bibliography of Secondary Sources 1860-1981
(1982 Scarecrow Press)
Rikky Rooksby : Swinburne - A Poet's Life
(1997 Scolar Press £30)

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See also

Kelmscott Press, The
Philip Edward Thomas