Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Algernon Charles Swinburne NPG Ax17804

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company

One of the outstanding poets of the nineteenth century. Born into the minor aristocracy, Swinburne met Rossetti at Oxford, and became an intimate member of his circle. His unconventional behaviour, alcoholic excess and the erotic nature of much of his poetry aroused controversy; but his lyrical gifts gradually won him recognition as a major poet, and he exerted considerable influence on the literary and aesthetic tastes of his age. Despite his republican sympathies, Swinburne was considered as a successor to Alfred Lord Tennyson... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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