Poems and Ballads and Atalanta in Calydon
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford where he was associated with Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite circle. His influence on aesthetes such as Pater, and on a later generation of poets was considerable. Kenneth Haynes is Professor of English at Boston University and has co-edited HORACE IN ENGLISH for Penguin Classics.