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innashpitzberg19 октября 2012 г.For the ordinary pursuits of young men at college he had a silent disdain, and did not encourage tutorial hopes by any application to the round of studies. Meanwhile, he was following his own course, devouring the literature of five languages and revolving a vast system of dreams.
99- innashpitzberg19 октября 2012 г.
Thirty years later, when Swinburne was looking over my book-shelves, he took down a copy of Lamb's Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets, and, turning to me, said, "That book taught me more than any other in the world, -- that and the Bible.
98 - innashpitzberg19 октября 2012 г.
Swinburne's physical strangeness was the object of wonder at Eton, but he was preserved from bullying by a certain dignity and by his unquestionable courage. He was not interfered with since he interfered with no one else, and Sir George Young admits that, even as quite a small boy, there was "something a little formidable about him.
98 - innashpitzberg19 октября 2012 г.Читать далее
From his father the poet inherited, however, little except a'certain identity of colour and expression; Algernon's features and something of his mental character being his mother's. From her father, the third Earl, she had received a careful education, and she possessed considerable literary taste. In particular, she cultivated with ardour the French and Italian languages. Much of her youth had been spent in Florence, at a time when the elegant accomplishment for Englishwomen was, par excellence, Italian, and Lady Jane taught the elements of that tongue to her eldest son at an extremely early age. Swinburne told me that he had read the Orlando Furioso long before he heard of The Faerie Queen.
98 - innashpitzberg19 октября 2012 г.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE was born in Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, on the 5th of April 1837. He was the eldest of the six children of Admiral Charles Henry Swinburne ( 1797-1877), by his wife Lady Jane Henrietta ( 1809-1896), daughter of George, third Earl of Ashburnham.
98 - innashpitzberg23 октября 2012 г.
Love in its romantic aspect had a perennial attraction for Swinburne, and the tale of Tristram and Iseult was romantic to extravagance. In all the other great stories of the world love had been an appanage or an ornament; in this, for the first time, and in the quivering Celtic abandonment, it was the essence of the event.
815 - innashpitzberg22 октября 2012 г.
In the evening his regular habit was to read aloud. It is perhaps worth mentioning that Swinburne was an insatiable and continuous novel-reader. He was so fond of Dickens that he read through the whole of his novels every three years, and Watts-Dunton used to declare that Swinburne had read them aloud to him "at least three times.
813 - innashpitzberg22 октября 2012 г.
He was studying Shakespeare and Æschylus with the avowed intention of capturing the secret of their art. He was experimenting in many forms of poetry. He was steeping himself almost to satiety in the literatures of England and France.
84 - innashpitzberg22 октября 2012 г.
Swinburne was the first critic to refrain from apologising for Blake as an eccentric or lunatic person with flashes of genius; he claimed systematic appreciation for his productions at large. The two most novel features of Swinburne's criticism were his analysis of Blake's mysticism and his laborious and illuminating examination of the Prophetic Books, which even the most initiated admirers had up to that time reject.
83 - innashpitzberg22 октября 2012 г.
On receiving his copy of Poems and Ballads, Richard Burton expressed his fear that the British public might be unwilling to swallow so much undiluted paganism. But no one had anticipated the storm of censure which now broke over Algernon's radiant and mocking head.
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