Swinburnianadj.
/swɪnˈbəːnɪən/, U.S. /ˌswɪnˈbərniən/ Of or relating to Algernon Charles Swinburne or his poetry; imitative or reminiscent of his poetic style, esp. in dealing with taboo sexual or religious themes.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > specific English, Scottish, or American poets
Chaucerian1660
Miltonian1708
Miltonic1708
Popean1730
Shakespeareana1754
Darwinian1794
Spenseric1795
Wordsworthian1810
Southeyan1817
Spenserian1817
Byronian1822
Byronic1823
Byronish1830
Coleridgian1834
Chattertonian1838
Keatsian1845
Tennysonian1846
Shelleyana1849
Patmorean1855
Rossettian1861
Praedesque1865
Swinburnian1865
Byro nical1871
Browningese1880
Browningesque1880
Patmorial1880
Wordsworthy1880
Browningitec1882
Whitmanesque1882
Thomsonian1890
Burnsian1904
Praedian1905
Blakeian1906
Poundian1917
Thompsonian?1921
Whitmanisha1930
Whitmanian1948
Betjemanic1956
Betjeman1958
Betjemanesque1959
Betjemanish1959
Whitmannica1960
1865 Orchestra 2 Dec. 147/3 Read this extract, and observe the Swinburnian dodges of antithesis worked to death.
1867 E. B. Lytton Let. 25 Jan. in R. Lytton Personal & Literary Lett. (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’.
1892 W. B. Scott Autobiogr. Notes I. xxii. 300 When the Swinburnian passion for French things..had infected nearly all our young writers.
1920 Glasgow Herald 30 Dec. 4 The ‘Various’ verses show now and then a Swinburnian touch.
1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells vii. 75 I was released Into Swinburnian stanzas with the wind.
2018 Yeats Ann. 21 457 Hardly Lawrentian, or even Swinburnian, the scene has nevertheless a sexual tension.
Derivatives
Swinˈburnianism n. [compare slightly earlier Swinburnism n.] now rare the poetic style of Algernon Charles Swinburne; imitation of or likeness to this, esp. in dealing with taboo sexual or religious themes; = Swinburnism n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poetic diction > [noun] > language or expression of specific poet
Miltonism1802
Byronism1817
Shelleyism1822
Shakespearism1823
Tennysonianism1843
Virgilianism1850
Swinburnism1868
Swinburnianism1869
Browningese1880
Shakespeareanism1886
Whitmanism1889
Horatian1891
Whitmanese1893
Tennysonianness1915
Praedism1927
Horatianism1936
Miltonicism1936
1869 Illustr. London News 5 June 567/2 Mr. Simcox's lines are fine, with some amusing touches of Swinburnianism.
1931 G. K. Chesterton All is Grist xxxviii. 212 Something that is connected not only with Swinburne but with Swinburnianism.
1976 Times 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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