“The work is not fruitful of pleasure, of honour, or of profit; but…” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

“The work is not fruitful of pleasure, of honour, or of profit; but, like other such tasks, it may be none the less useful and necessary.”

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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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