New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-25
ILGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNB.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PoET-UIs EARLY LIFE
POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS OPINIONS.
Correspondence Of The Boston gazette.

oOrrsponasaee Of The Boston GasstiS
Swnburne is, probably, best known ~ AmeT nMs
by his poorest work-hls Poems a.G ncrs These
poems written many years ago, ana are lSa Tn
sl the wdness anu passion of his DO! hood large MA
Sy o. Ses ssas q swinSsre name vita
dissipation and unbrled passion These who nave Gnrs
noticeable that the foremost British Journals sucn o. &c
Ssdag ks',s ne s,ss'' Wit, I the aSr dssny
and respect only awarded an author OF u,, nlsh
CHARLES ws sTu IS OF i. s SIN an
was London April o. 1887 and en'eGed o1orn un
Tn The father 81 the poet Admiral swinburne Is the
son Of Sir John swineurne, person whose me ~ VIZ
", S laO 'i E & ksSSarns whose family though one
81 them the closest follower OF cnr So cause e Of
aes I,sr suss and Increased in wealth and titles
swnburnc i've YEAR, at school ror C SNORT
Or Study as youugster except poeny riding ana
swimming and though as boy his verses nay hs she
s, ,a va BENG bred by the sea- he was good
oarsman and u vain :" tns Gay OF naSIs fse and
sVer since repued 10 be inaccessible All OF which re-
pudatcs the charge OF physical deo ano b pu
fcace IA body OF extreme refoI1ners not now ekn.,
b,m 10 sii in Parliament Offering TO insure MS sea. anu
Iag all expenses representative OF more ao'aiceu
ssriSS there he never in bis lie felt any ambition for
aay work fame but poets except ndeeS s,a;ed
that oa lie appealed to The man he most rs Sssv
Ind reyered on carth-Nazzni being then i trnn
Ia Iondon-if he thought II his du'y 10 to',so
lis own nkngs the chance Of being n, OF ro Tsr
80 cause Ma1zn told mn ne nGen ne felt that he
,n,li dismiss the application with wholly 'eeI eon
science As his an scy snT "y what he really does think
en- religious natters. Having been rs cG Gnu r ~, no;
a. nossionnteIy as for other things & g. wei nish 10
rSaected and unstralned ccstacies OF adorao. wn1n
,eresytr the Sacramcntl then when TINS wac na.udR
~ dsaJ and buried. it lett nothing but turb:a
nihiiisrn for theist be never was; ne ,Id con,
MS neiSona God except by superstition or else py
truo supernatural revelation; that na,i 0 yoW roiS
by other than apoealyp,e means, e. ns 0a aan
than violation OF the lave a orael oi n ian With
n aifrrencc: man with some qualities iniesS ca; ana
soe qualities pd e exc,sed Therefore swbrne
Irht can himself II he wished, KIND u ChfsNan oi
IT, chnrch of Riake and shelley. but assur.cly IL no
80 tnrist that is taking the senIi-legehdary CHRIST
"a tyne OF human aspirations ana pcnteuo, ad sui
n,4 az Ven IRe) that Jesus may have been tne highest
ps I ,res, s.,uple of man record. swnbuTnes
,iSnds Mi know and Joke him about ms eo ,a ioia
mes (which lie has always found % 49,, ~ W.
htte children and very old persons on me later ne s
known grand examples IN nis he made Inc ae-
onan,amce OF lr Trelawney 0he friend OF S4ey' OF OF
Byron and % Grant rs%, Of genius. The present
raiieal cid hero calls swneurae the as' 81 Rvr .e
pes %l uen9oansbp is Of most rough and ragged
,,,le bat 1T legible than that vi nlls i az
~ o tails 20 dot his is and his is. OF all he
has done swinburnc rates Hertha nleese s a 9e .S
NIECE.
srcynccu,ra,ed into that fine Lyrical poem lie is now
w,ttnr In the form oi essay sort OF history oi ec
syie OF Shakespeare, and t progress ,hrouSn xatIc c
st.,@es a. Growth. This Re Will undoubtedly 90 wei,
~ he has been studying shakespeare ever slnee ne Wls
~, cas- ola some biogTalbers have hd sWlnDuThc
ham I'm France but he never was IN France "a ly iOl
,ora Than a few weeks together, ana th NOT more tIa
,rce or four times in his life, and never was OUT o. LIZ
slsnd al all ill he eighteen. THIS letter WI
Re h,.en written in vain II II does not give ne
,"aoe~s "a clearer aud moro favorable view Oh Al
rernon Charles swiubmne's hfe Inc larger , n9p
Scn 81 his time Is passed Ut his residence, Holm
Socd where he pretty stehdiy occu-
mel With his unrng pen. turning out hls UREA teLte
snd cowng critical prose With equal facility ana Nsoi'
A., Inc he rms no tO London for few ia! cOlhu-
Ga, WIEN MS friends among whom X sSctu ana MOTIFS
o.. nerIans the most distinguished. When lie seems 10
Ia tne most al leisure. ana careless OF literary epua-
a. e often engaged some laboOus production,
a. vas the ease during the composition OF ms cpcl
dr.wa RoWell' the longest and IN some respects TIC
s"St sicnifcnt OF mUdern dramatic poems 1hele no
Sht tIt SWinurue has been careless ana even dchaht
nj nnbllc opiaOn and often unjust III thc sdure ana
saor with hich he has rettiated upon the meaer cis
of his censors The wonder is, considering inc ATTACKS
made upOn him, and the gross mlscOinprehehsloh 10
Irb he mas been subjected, that he Das not been CON
Nrncd io wild ard reckless career Ills poetic gehus
ar,1t srholarshp and GENEROUS aspirations nave savsa
either mistntiropc OF pIonlsi'e
I he has long passed the errors ana mehl O
xentI and become his own country man Of Tecog
niLei leadership.