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“Every master of pathos has a key of his own to unlock the source of tears, or of that passionate and piteous pleasure which lies above and under the region of tears.”

Suggesting that each great artist reaches emotion by a distinct path · Essay, Victor Hugo: L'Homme qui Rit

About Algernon Charles Swinburne

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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