The
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Project

Edited by John A. Walsh

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“For the matter of it—I consent to much—I regret much—I blame or reject nothing. I should as soon think of finding fault with you as with a thundercloud or a nightshade blossom. All I can say of you or them—is that God made you, and that you are very wonderful and beautiful.”

—John Ruskin, from a letter to Swinburne, commenting on the poet’s Poems and Ballads.