Algernon Swinburne

Last week, while waiting for my English lecture to begin, I started to flip through a poetry book that I found laying on the floor. It was about the Pre-Raphaelites and there were portraits of the poets in the beginning of the book. One portrait that caught my attention was the one of Algernon Swinburne.


I'm not sure why, but I was fascinated by this picture. Maybe it's because Algernon looks innocent and devious at the same time. And his hair, it's so wild! He looks like a charming rogue straight out of some fantastical pirate story. How intriguing!

My favorite of Algernon's poems is "An Interlude". Here's a link to the poem. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/swinburne/view?docId=pb1intrl00&query=&brand=swinburne