“For the matter of it—I consent to much—I regret much—I blame or reject nothing. I should as soon think of finding fault with you as with a thundercloud or a nightshade blossom. All I can say of you or them—is that God made you, and that you are very wonderful and beautiful.”
—John Ruskin, from a letter to Swinburne, commenting on the poet’s Poems and Ballads.
The Swinburne Project is a digital collection and scholarly project devoted to the life and work of Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne and to digital encounters with Swinburne's works and related documents and information resources.
New Edition of The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project
In March, 2012 a major new edition of The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project was published online. The new edition includes a fresh architecture and design and a great deal of new content, including:
- All six volumes of the collected Poems (London: Chatto and Windus, 1904).
- Swinburne's one finished novel, Love's Cross-Currents (London: Chatto and Windus, 1905).
- Facsimile page images for all the above texts.
- A new section of the project, Tools & Tactics, features a collection of digital encounters with the edited and encoded text corpus of the Swinburne Project: visualizations, image and text analysis tools, and creative works.
- An Introduction to Swinburne's life and work.
- An updated Chronology.
- A significantly expanded version of Terry Meyers' “Supplementary Material” to his Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 3 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005). The revised material includes an illustrated essay on the controversy surrounding Swinburne's funeral.
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