ABSTRACT
Oliver Elton (1861–1945) had engaged in private tutoring and reviewing and had lectured on English literature in Owens College, Manchester, before his appointment in 1901 as King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the institution which soon became the University of Liverpool. His chapter on Swinburne in Modern Studies (used by permission of Edward Arnold [publishers], owner of the copyright) was preceded by reviews in the Speaker during 1904 and 1905, and his more mature and rounded estimate of the poet appeared in his Survey of English Literature 1780–1880 (1920), iv, 55–84. Modern Studies (1907), 208–27.
