How To Use Swinburne In A Sentence
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In Swinburne's work as a whole many adjectives are used as nouns and many nouns as adjectives.
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Poe was the juiciest rhymer of the nineteenth century—before Swinburne, that is—but Mallarmé in his wisdom translated Poe into exquisitely rhymeless French prose, and then Mallarmé published his reverent prose translations in a book, with line drawings by Manet.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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Hankey can be found too in various biographies of Swinburne, with whom, naturally, he was acquainted.
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Childe Harold" or "Don Juan," despite Swinburne's accusation of botchery, they would see that he really had very little time to be wicked.
Without Prejudice
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And that motif links the poem with the overall symbolism of Swinburne's world where the sea is always considered a last refuge after pain.
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Twice he closed the book on forefinger to look at the name of the author. Swinburne!
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A few years before this, Swinburne's friend, the redoubtable equestrienne Adah Mencken, had complained to
'The Oxford Book of Parodies'
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Mr. Swinburne to those of Mr. Patmore, in which stateliness of contemplation and a peculiar austerity of tenderness find their expression in odes of iambic cadence, the melody of which depends, not in their headlong torrent of sound, but in the cunning variation of catalectic pause.
Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
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For instance, when Swinburne read her poetry he exclaimed: “I have always thought that nothing more glorious in poetry has ever been written”, and went on to say of her New Year Hymn that it was touched as with the fire and bathed as in the light of sunbeams, tuned as to chords and cadences of refluent sea-music beyond reach of harp and organ, large echoes of the serene and sonorous tides of heaven
The Common Reader, Second Series
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To Swinburne, as he says, the distinction between books and life is but a 'dullard's distinction,' and it may justly be said of him that it is with an equal instinct and an equal enthusiasm that he is drawn to whatever in nature, in men, in books, or in ideas is great, noble, and heroic.
Figures of Several Centuries
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Full-sailed, wide-winged, poised softly forever asway" is irregular according to the foot-rule of traditional prosody, when it is probable, as Mr.C. E. Russell maintains, that Swinburne was here composing in purely musical and not prosodical rhythm?
A Study of Poetry
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Rocks that are cruel and relentless as the surges that sweep over them in stormy weather, and which are so quaintly named from their helmet, or "casque" - like resemblance -- rocks, concerning which the poet Swinburne has sung in his eloquent verse, that breathes the very spirit of the sea in depicting the strife of the elements:
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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Mr. Swinburne, too, regrets the miscarriage of justice; the play to him is a tragedy, and should end tragically with the punishment of the “autotype of the huge national vice of England.”
The Man Shakespeare
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The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.
Ptomaine Street
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As to the charge of tritheism, Alston opines that “Swinburne embraces a fairly straightforward form of tritheism” (55).
Trinity
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Keenly mortified by the dullness of his senses and instincts, he knew he was no companion for Swinburne.
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Grief with a glass that ran -- of Swinburne, or the mossiness of Mallarmé, Pound's verse is always definite and concrete, because he has always a definite emotion behind it.
Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
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In Swinburne's work as a whole many adjectives are used as nouns and many nouns as adjectives.
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The splendid and passionate lyrics of Swinburne, with their structural involutions and complicacies, must have been "a dem'd grind.
Without Prejudice
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Reviewers and critics paid Swinburne the compliment of identifying him with Sappho and praising his talent as Sapphic.
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Similar combinations, still freer, with frequent anacrusis as well, are characteristic of Swinburne's Hesperia; e. g.
The Principles of English Versification
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Indeed in 1892, when it was necessary to appoint a new Poet Laureate, Queen Victoria is reported to have said to Gladstone: ‘I am told that Mr Swinburne is the best poet in my dominions.’
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The genesis of "who'll reap the seeds I sow" is also Biblical (Galatians 6: 7; cf Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon, stanza 3.) "These are the horns of the dilemma.
The Crime, and Its Victims
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Lewis Carroll's best parodies are pure poetry, but he was also capable of routine Victorian jocosity of producing a parody of Swinburne entitled (with a nod towards Atalanta in Calydon) 'Atalanta in Camden Town'.
'The Oxford Book of Parodies'
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Lewis Carroll's best parodies are pure poetry, but he was also capable of routine Victorian jocosity of producing a parody of Swinburne entitled (with a nod towards Atalanta in Calydon) 'Atalanta in Camden Town'.
'The Oxford Book of Parodies'
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But Coco sets high standards and so has gone head to paw with the Swinburne Uni computer, which has fluked a score of 97 after Round 18.
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C.S.C.), and read and enjoy the smart slating Mr. LEHMANN administers to tumid, tumultuous, thrasonic, turncoatist ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, for saying of the brilliant and well-beloved Author of _Fly Leaves_, &c., that he -- forsooth!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892
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It can only be supposed that Swinburne needed a poeticule to torture.
