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Algernon Swinburne

In musical, often erotic verse, British poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote and attacked the conventions of Victorian morality.

This controversial Englishman in his own day invented the roundel form and some novels and contributed to the famous eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;”
Algernon Swinburne
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