Algernon Charles Swinburne - A Study of Shakespeare

Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on April 5th, 1837, in London, into a wealthy Northumbrian family.

He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, but did not complete a degree.

In 1860 Swinburne published two verse dramas but achieved his first literary success in 1865 with Atalanta in Calydon, written in