Skip to main content
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet and playwrightWikipedia

Search complete. 70 mentions across 14 episodes found for "Algernon Charles Swinburne".

Oct 4, 2026

Quakers Catechism

Quakers Catechism

Victorian Literature-Clement Shorter

Oct 4 · 1 Mention

speaker_9NARRATOR
177:17
The question whether Cardinal Newman or Carlisle has been the most influential personality in Victorian literature will be largely decided by the temperament of the critic.
speaker_9NARRATOR
177:27
Mr Swinburne, looking at them both from a standpoint of antagonism to the priestly proclivities of the one, and to the tyrannical proclivities of the other, apostrophize them jointly in the well-known lines.
speaker_9NARRATOR
177:40
Quote, End quote.
speaker_9NARRATOR
177:57
newman indeed left england more dominated by ritual than in any other period of its history the roman church more powerful than ever before the new high church party in the establishment a great institution with the rival prime ministers mr gladstone and lord salisbury among its supporters and a taste for ritual conspicuous in the chapels of the nonconformists and yet with all this carlyle was the more dominant personality End of Chapter 3 Part 2 Chapter 3 Part 3 of Victorian Literature

Unknown podcast

Arthurian Miscellany-Various

Sep 29 · 1 Mention

Kristen HughesNARRATOR
37:27
A man had given all other bliss and all his worldly worth for this, to waste his whole heart in one kiss upon her perfect lips.
Kristen HughesNARRATOR
37:56
THE DAY BEFORE THE TRIAL by Algernon Charles Swinburne KING ARTHUR SAYS BEING ALONE Now the day comes near and near.
Kristen HughesNARRATOR
38:24
I feel its hot breath and see it clear.
Kristen HughesNARRATOR
38:28
How strange it is and full of fear.

Unknown podcast

Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 5, July 1906-Various

Sep 27 · 1 Mention

speaker_6NARRATOR
2:58
Mother Earth, Volume 1, Number 5, July 1906, by Various.
speaker_6NARRATOR
3:08
Light by Algernon Charles Swinburne from Songs Before Sunrise light light and light to break and melt in sunder all clouds and chains that in one bondage bind eyes hands and spirits forged by fear and wonder and sleek fierce fraud with hidden knife behind there goes no fire from heaven before their thunder nor are the links not malleable that wind round the snared limbs and soles that ache thereunder the hands are mighty were the head not blind priest is the staff of king and chains and clouds one thing and fettered flesh with devastated mind Open thy soul to see, Slave and thy feet are free, Thy bonds and thy belief are one in kind, And of thy fears thine irons wrought, Hang weights upon thee, Fashioned out of thine own thought.
Agnes Robert BaerNARRATOR
4:48
Section 3 of Mother Earth.
Agnes Robert BaerNARRATOR
4:50
Volume 1.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885

Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885

Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 5, July 1906-Various

Sep 26 · 1 Mention

Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
3:21
Mother Earth, volume one, number five, July 1906, by various.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
3:31
Light, by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
3:36
From Songs Before Sunrise.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
3:41
Light, light, and light, to break and melt in sunder, All clouds and chains that in one bondage bind, Eyes, hands, and spirits, forged by fear and wonder, And sleek fierce fraud with hidden knife behind.
ICMDA Recordings

ICMDA Recordings

Webinar #315 Andrew Fellows - Humanity matters

Sep 25 · 1 Mention

Andrew FellowsGUEST
9:14
And the point I want to make is that the original Enlightenment project, the first what we call modern humanism, had a very high anthropology, a very high view of what it means to be human.
Andrew FellowsGUEST
9:27
Charles Swinburne is one of the 19th century's great poets in terms of the English scene.
Andrew FellowsGUEST
9:33
He was also a playwright.
Andrew FellowsGUEST
9:35
And he wrote what's known as the Hymn to Man.

Unknown podcast

Prelude To Adventure-Hugh Walpole

Sep 17 · 1 Mention

MartinNARRATOR
32:06
The books were mainly to do with his favorite historical period, the later Roman Empire.
MartinNARRATOR
32:12
There was some poetry, an edition of Browning, Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Ernest Dowson, Rossetti, Francis Thompson.
MartinNARRATOR
32:21
There was an edition of Hazlitt, a set of The Spectator, one or two novels, Henry Lessingham and The Roads by Galleon, To Paradise by Leicester, Meredith's One of Our Conquerors and Diana of the Crossways, The Ambassadors and Awkward Age of Henry James.
MartinNARRATOR
32:40
On the mantelpiece above the fireplace there were three deep blue bowls, the only ornaments in the room.
Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1

Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1

And Even Now-Max Beerbohm

Sep 16 · 57 Mentions

Kirsten WeaverNARRATOR
91:48
Section 5 Number 2.
Kirsten WeaverNARRATOR
91:51
The Pines 1914 Author's Note Early in the year 1914, Mr. Edmund Gosse told me he was asking certain of his friends to write for him a few words apiece in description of Swinburne as they had known or seen him at one time or another, and he was so good as to wish to include in this gathering a few words by myself.
Kirsten WeaverNARRATOR
92:21
I found it hard to be brief without seeming irreverent.
Kirsten WeaverNARRATOR
92:25
I failed in the attempt to make of my subject a snapshot that was not a grotesque.
Kirsten WeaverNARRATOR
93:01
M.B. End of Author's Note In my youth the suburbs were rather looked down on.
Kirsten WeaverNARRATOR
93:11
I never quite knew why.
Kirsten WeaverNARRATOR
93:13
It was held anomalous and a matter for merriment that Swinburne lived in one of them.
Kirsten WeaverNARRATOR
93:20
For my part, had I known as a fact that Catullus was still alive, I should have been as ready to imagine him living in Putney as elsewhere.

Unknown podcast

Algernon Charles Swinburne’s “Sestina”

Sep 16 · 1 Mention

Sean JohnsonHOST
0:09
I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Wednesday, September 16th, 2026.
Sean JohnsonHOST
0:13
Today's poem is by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Sean JohnsonHOST
0:17
It's called Sestina.
Sean JohnsonHOST
0:19
It's named for its poetic form, which is typically a poem comprised of six six-line stanzas.

Unknown podcast

Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces-Thomas Hardy

Sep 16 · 1 Mention

Thomas PeterNARRATOR
43:25
Read for LibriVox.org by Thomas Peter.
Thomas PeterNARRATOR
43:30
A Singer Asleep, Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837-1909.
Thomas PeterNARRATOR
43:35
1. in this fair niche above the unslumbering sea that sentries up and down all night all day from cove to promontory from nest to bay the fates have fitly bidden that he should be pillowed eternally it was as though a garland of red roses had fallen about the hood of some smug nun when irresponsibly dropped as from the sun in fulth of numbers freaked with musical closes upon victoria's formal middle time his leaves of rhythm and rhyme three on that far morning of a summer day when down a terraced street whose pavements lay glassing the sunshine into my bent eyes i walked and read with a quick glad surprise new words and classic guise four the passionate pages of his earlier years fraught with hot sighs sad laughters kisses tears fresh fluted notes yet from a minstrel who blew them not naively but as one who knew full well why thus he blew five i still can hear the bravel and the roar at those thy tunes o still one now passed through that fitful fire of tongues then entered new their power is spent like spindrift on this shore thine swells yet more and more six His singing mistress verily was no other than she the lesbian, she the music mother of all the tribe that feel in melodies, who leapt, love-anguished, from the Leucadians deep into the rambling world encircling deep, which hides her where none sees.
Thomas PeterNARRATOR
45:45
SEVEN and one can hold in thought that nightly here his phantom may draw down to the water's brim and hers come up to meet it as a dim lone shine upon the heaving hydrosphere and mariners wonder as they traverse near and knowing of her and him one dreams him sighing to her spectral form.

Unknown podcast

Democracy - An American Novel-Henry Brooks Adams

Sep 15 · 1 Mention

Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
12:02
She had read voraciously and promiscuously one subject after another.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
12:07
Ruskin and Taine had danced merrily through her mind, hand in hand with Darwin and Stuart Mill, Gustave Droste, and Algernon Swinburne.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
12:16
She had even labored over the literature of her own country.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
12:20
She was perhaps the only woman in New York who knew something of American history.

4 more episodes mention Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.

Sign up to see moreAlready have an account? Log in

We value your privacy

We use cookies to understand how you use our platform and to improve your experience. Click “Accept All” to consent, or “Decline non-essential” to opt out of non-essential cookies. Read our Privacy Policy.