Algernon Charles Swinburne

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909), English poet and literary critic. He established his reputation as a writer with the verse play Atalanta in Calydon (1865). Other important works were 2 volumes of Poems and Ballads (1866, 1878) and the long poem Tristram of Lyonesse (1882). His knowledge of literary works of classical Greece and Rome, Shakespeare and other Elizabethans, and French poetry informed his work. His own poetry is known both for its sensuality and its exploration of complex meters and rhyme schemes.