Charles Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909) was an often controversial English poet, playwright, novelist and literary critic. He and fellow writer Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) became close friends, and Gosse eventually undertook this brief biography of the poet, which was published in 1912.
A brief biography of the controversial English poet Charles Algernon Swinburne (1837 1909) by one of his literary contemporaries.