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Swinburnian, a.|swɪnˈbɜːnɪən|
[f. the name of the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, imitative or characteristic of Swinburne or his poetry. Hence Swinˈburnianism, ˈSwinburnism.
1867E. B. Lytton Let. 25 Jan. in Lett. R. Lytton (1906) I. 207 The ‘Gyges and Candaules’ have some dangerous supersensual lines which I advise you to reconsider. It will not do for you to be ‘Swinburnian’. 1868A. J. Symonds Let. 24 Apr. (1967) I. 803 Courthope..is full of the gall of bitterness against the Apostles of Swinburnism. 1892W. B. Scott Autobiogr. Notes I. xxii. 300 When the Swinburnian passion for French things..had infected nearly all our young writers. 1920Glasgow Herald 30 Dec. 4 The ‘Various’ verses show now and then a Swinburnian touch. 1931G. K. Chesterton All is Grist xxxviii. 212 Something that is connected not only with Swinburne but with Swinburnianism. 1949A. Huxley Let. 6 Apr. (1969) 595 Any equivalent in English becomes automatically Swinburnian, that is to say rich without the weight..which Latin imposes. 1960J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells vii. 75, I was released Into Swinburnian stanzas with the wind. 1974E. Hardwick Seduction & Betrayal 109 A Swinburnian mood of spankings and teasing degradation. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Nov. 1495/2 [Gilbert Murray's] translations of Greek tragedies are still to be found on the shelves of college bookstores today, in spite of all the rude things that have been said about their Swinburnianism. |