Swinburnian

Unpretentious as it was, this had the true ring, and its very simplicity showed conscious power for, unlike so many first attempts, the book was not full of "My Lady," neither did it indulge in Swinburnian convulsions about

Rose in Bloom 1876

I took literally his verses, touched here and there with Swinburnian rhetoric, and believed that he had loved, unhappily and illicitly; and when through the practice of my art I discovered that certain images about the love of woman were the properties of a school, I but changed my fancy and thought of him as very wise.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I took literally his verses, touched here and there with Swinburnian rhetoric, and believed that he had loved, unhappily and illicitly; and when through the practice of my art I discovered that certain images about the love of woman were the properties of a school, I but changed my fancy and thought of him as very wise.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I took literally his verses, touched here and there with Swinburnian rhetoric, and believed that he had loved, unhappily and illicitly; and when through the practice of my art I discovered that certain images about the love of woman were the properties of a school, I but changed my fancy and thought of him as very wise.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I took literally his verses, touched here and there with Swinburnian rhetoric, and believed that he had loved, unhappily and illicitly; and when through the practice of my art I discovered that certain images about the love of woman were the properties of a school, I but changed my fancy and thought of him as very wise.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Swinburnian young man in Asheville, for whose passionate kisses and unsentimental conversations she had taken a decided penchant — they had discussed the matter pro and con with an intellectual romancing quite devoid of soppiness.

This Side of Paradise 2003

Swinburnian, overly allusive and full of rapture, the lines that first caught my eye were, "- the infinite shadows of Amber, touched with her treacherous taint."

Trumps of Doom Zelazny, Roger 1985

Pater removed the peculiarly Swinburnian quality of savagery and defiance, however, which is one reason why the Swinburne portrait is so important, as we shall see.

The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972

I took literally his verses, touched here and there with Swinburnian rhetoric, and believed that he had loved, unhappily and illicitly; and when through the practice of my art I discovered that certain images about the love of woman were the properties of a school, I but changed my fancy and thought of him as very wise.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I took literally his verses, touched here and there with Swinburnian rhetoric, and believed that he had loved, unhappily and illicitly; and when through the practice of my art I discovered that certain images about the love of woman were the properties of a school, I but changed my fancy and thought of him as very wise.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965