“In all times there have been gods that alighted and giants that…” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

“In all times there have been gods that alighted and giants that appeared on earth; the ranks of great men are properly divisible, not into thinkers and workers, but into Titans and Olympians.”

Imagining exceptional creators as different orders of mythic power · Essay, Coleridge

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

About Algernon Charles Swinburne

5 April 1837–10 April 1909

Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on 5 April 1837 at 7 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, into a family whose rank, traditions, and geography would all enter his imagination. He was the eldest surviving child of Captain, later Admiral, Charles Henry Swinburne and Lady Jane Henrietta Ashburnham, daughter of the…

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