Quotes from Algernon Charles Swinburne's books, and about them
The Age of Innocence on Chastelard: “He raised his head irritably when his sister Janey entered, and then quickly bent over his book (Swinburne's "Chastelard"--just out) as if he had not seen her.”
Plain Tales from the Hills on Atalanta in Calydon: “One day, indeed, he began reciting Atalanta in Calydon, and went through it to the end, beating time to the swing of the verse with a bedstead-leg.”
The Education of Henry Adams on Atalanta in Calydon: “If he had sinned and doubted at all, he wholly repented and did penance before "Atalanta in Calydon," and would have offered Swinburne a solemn worship as Milnes's female offered Hugo, if it would have pleased the poet.”
Of Human Bondage on Poems and Ballads: “What a genius we should think Swinburne if he had perished on the day the first series of Poems and Ballads was published!"”
The Education of Henry Adams on Queen Rosamond: “Stirling of Keir wanted to take with him to his chamber a copy of "Queen Rosamund," the only volume Swinburne had then published”