My essay on Edmund Gosse’s malign influence on Swinburne studies, both biographical and critical, is now available on the website of the International Walter Pater Society. ‘“A Genius for Inaccuracy”: Edmund Gosse and the Case of Swinburne’s Missing Musical “Ear”’ overturns… Read More ›
The original version of this article first appeared on the website of the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation in 2021. All the pictures are from my own collection. Hooligans are not normally associated with classical music. Concert halls tend to be… Read More ›
My PhD research into the relationship between the poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne and the music of Richard Wagner can be found by following the link below. Parts of this research were first presented at the Poems & Ballads 150th… Read More ›
The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture contains thirty essays exploring some of the Victorian era’s greatest moral infractions, titillations, and transgressions. Published earlier this year and edited by Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier, it contains… Read More ›
My article on Vernon Lee (1856-1935) has been published in Volupté: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies. Provocatively entitled ‘Lying Down or Standing Up for Music’, it examines ideas about ‘hearing’ and ‘listening’ in Lee’s final work, Music and its… Read More ›
My essay on Edmund Gosse’s malign influence on Swinburne studies, both biographical and critical, is available in the latest issue of the International Walter Pater Society’s journal. ‘“A Genius for Inaccuracy”: Edmund Gosse and the Case of Swinburne’s Missing Musical… Read More ›
One of Swinburne’s bookcases, designed and painted by the artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is up for sale at the Lyon & Turnbull auction house next week (21 April 2021). Shown in the auction house’s picture left, the bookcase stood… Read More ›
The first two stanzas of A Match by Jeremiah Rhodes, published in 1868. Swinburne’s poem ‘A Match’ from his 1866 collection Poems and Ballads would become one of his most popular lyrics and the poem most often set to music…. Read More ›
Here is a catalogue of songs which were set to the lyrics of Swinburne and published between 1866-1920. It also lists a few important unpublished songs and some musical oddities and odds and ends that I’m not sure how to… Read More ›
Here is an original score for Theophilus Marzials’s popular song ‘Ask Nothing More’ (1883). The words are from Swinburne’s poem ‘The Oblation’ (Songs Before Sunrise, 1871). I played my own recording of this piece at the British Association of Decadence… Read More ›
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