419) Algernon Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909). English poet, playwright, novelist and critic.
He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

- "Swinburne was small of stature with flaming red hair, and was nicknamed dear little Carrots by Edward Burne-Jones..."  https://books.google.it/

Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1862, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

   

Painting by William Bell Scott