Talk:Algernon Charles Swinburne

message: Weren't they Sussex, not Northumbrian? See separate articles. Seadowns (talk) 12:07, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ashburnham family 

message: Is rustication such a rare distinction? I rather thought it endemic during my time at Oxford. At least among my circle.
:There's no evidence in any printed source I can find for the assertion at everything2.com (not a reliable source that Swinburn was rusticated for his political opinions; the consensus is that it was for failing two examinations.  Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 17:31, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rustication 

message: Recently the file :File:Algernon Charles Swinburne by Robert M.B. Paxton.jpg (right) was uploaded and it appears to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think it would be a useful addition, please feel free to include it. Dcoetzee 01:39, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
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message: I believe he was bi; can anyone confirm that? Nietzsche 2 (talk) 14:51, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As a true Wikipedian, you are to be commended for your attempt to further the agenda. There must be no rest until every Wikipedia biography contains assertions and claims that the person in the article possessed or possesses such tendencies and behavioral characteristics.173.72.63.150 (talk) 21:50, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Angels and ministers of grace defend us, I thought I was the only person on the planet who is weary of and dismayed at this mission by some Wikipedians to prove that every human being, living or defunct, is/was bisexual,  and that their sexual orientation was/is somehow relevant to their achievement. I am reassured. 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:34CC:7656:4CAE:29DF (talk) 10:16, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

text: Sarcastic commentary aside, unless his sexual orientation is somehow relevant to his life and/or work, who gives a flying F?  The Aberystwyth website describes Powell as a "close friend".  Can we not just leave it at that? DoctorJoeE review transgressions/talk to me! 19:37, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orientation 

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message: This is a quote from the Brooklyn Eagle of April 6, 1868 (Whitman was editor of the Brooklyn Eagle 1846 - 1848) - not sure if it is relevant or can be worked into the article:
'It is not often a writer receives from a contemporary a notice so entirely first-rate as the poet Swinburne has given the poet Walt Whitman. The former finds in the latter enough resemblance to William Blake to encourage a belief in “the transition of souls or transfusion of spirits.” He calls him a “great American,” and admires him hugely because he is a “passionate preacher of sexual and political freedom.” Enthusiasm for the first of these specialties of liberty seems to have made Swinburne mildly insane. The “casual audacities of expression” which forbid any gentleman to put “Leaves of Grass” on his parlor table do not alarm Swinburne, who says Whitman’s “work is generally more frank and fresh, smelling of sweeter air,” than anybody else’s excepting Blake’s. Happily for Blake he is dead and cannot read the “odorous” comparison. But Whitman ought to come down from the top of his omnibus and tender Swinburne that shocking bad hat.'
Epinoia (talk) 15:13, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swinburne and Whitman