The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 1, January 1891 / edited by George Newnes.
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 1, January 1891 / edited by George Newnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![From a Photograph by'] age 52. [Messrs. Elliott <§• Fry, Born 1837 r has been said that every poet destined to become famous has written a great poem before five-and-twenty. Mr. Swin¬ burne is, however, an excep¬ tion to this rule. He was seven-and-twenty when, 1864, he published “ Atalanta in Calydon,” his first great work, and the finest imitation of a Greek play ever written. Two years later, the first series of “ Poems and Ballads ” proved conclusively that the new singer who had arisen must be classed with Shelley at the head of all the lyric bards of England. Mr. Swinburne’s appearance at that time is given in the first of our two portraits, which is said by those who knew him to be an admirable likeness. Nearly a quarter of a century has since elapsed, and it is interesting to notice how the course of years, which has failed to tame the fiery vigour of his verse, has wrought the younger aspect of the poet into the older and still finer one.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3047940x_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
