A Note On Charlotte Brontë

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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144 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1970

About the author

In musical, often erotic verse, British poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote and attacked the conventions of Victorian morality.

This controversial Englishman in his own day invented the roundel form and some novels and contributed to the famous eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

(Less than 5 stars only due to Swinburne's exceptionally heavy prose which is at risk of seeming pretentious)

A beautiful treatise on the genius of Charlotte Brontë - Swinburne writes with adoration and utter conviction on the writer who he deems to be "without equal."

[Sophie Mann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although, his prose is very, very heavy, I prefer Swinburne when he writes about his favourite authors. It’s just beautiful and lyrical... just have a look at his essay on Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
So combining his lyricism with MY favourite author made my heart and soul very happy. Although, arguably, he prefers Emily to Charlotte and spends more time criticising poor George Eliot rather than actually explaining us why Rochester and Paul Emmanuel are wonderful men.