ABSTRACT
In a study of Swinburne’s writings, Thomas found that Swinburne’s poems of love and sin lack the human voice of an authentic poetlover (Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Critical Study, 1912, p. 84).
As his poems are seldom personal, so they are not as real as Donne’s or Byron’s or Browning’s are, though often more ‘realistic’ at certain points. They are magnificent, but more than human.
