Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 - April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and irreligion.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 - April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and irreligion.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", and "The Masque of Anarchy". However, his major works were long visionary poems including "Alastor", "Adonais", "The Revolt of Islam", …

Theodore Watts-Dunton (October 12 1832 - June 6 1914) was an English critic and poet. He is now best remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism. Walter Theodore Watts was born at St. Ives in what was then Huntingdonshire. He added his mother's name of Dunton to his surname in 1897. He was originally educated as a naturalist, and saw much of the East Anglian Gypsies, …

Simeon Solomon (b. October 9, 1840 in London - d. August 14, 1905 in St. Giles's Workhouse) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter.

Stuart Merrill was an American poet, born in Hempstead, New York, who wrote in the French language. He belonged to the Symbolist school. Educated in Paris, he became a student of Old French texts and was a great admirer of Algernon Charles Swinburne. His principal books of poetry were "Les Gammes" (1887). "Les Fastes" (1891), and "Petits Poèmes d'Automne" (1895).

Edward Moxon was a British poet and publisher. He was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire. In 1826 he published a volume of verse, entitled "The Prospect, and other Poems", which was received favourably. In 1830 Moxon was started by Samuel Rogers as a London publisher in New Bond Street. The first volume he produced was Charles Lamb's "Album Verses". Moving to Dover Street, Piccadilly, Moxon published an illustrated edition of Rogers's "Italy", …

Arnold Henry Savage Landor was a painter, explorer, writer and anthropologist, born in Florence. His grandfather, Walter Savage Landor, had been a celebrated poet and writer, himself living for long periods in Florence. Henry Savage Landor passed his childhood in Florence, and, being artistically precocious, as a boy attended the studio of Harry Jones Thaddeus, a talented Irish portrait painter.

Sir Harold George Nicolson KCMG (November 21 1886 - May 1 1968) was a British diplomatist, author and politician. Nicolson was instrumental in preparing Britain's policy towards Greece. His philhellenism was matched by notable Turkophobia. He was the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West, and is best remembered today for that relationship, immortalised in their son's book, "Portrait of a Marriage".

John Evelyn Barlas (1860 - 1914), pseudonym Evelyn Douglas, was an English poet and political activist of the late nineteenth century. He was a member of the decadent movement in literature, as well as a revolutionary socialist in politics. Eight books of his Swinburne-influenced verse were published between 1884 and 1893, including 1885's "the Bloody Heart", 1887's "Phantasmagoria: Dream-Fugues" and 1889's "Love Sonnets".

Edmund John (27 November 1883 - 28 February 1917) was a British poet of the Uranian school whose verses were modelled on the Symbolist poetry of Swinburne and other earlier poets. Much of his work was condemned by critics for being overly decadent and unfashionable. He fought in the First World War, but was invalided out in 1916. He died at Taormina, in Sicily, a year later

Francis Viélé-Griffin, French poet, was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA. he was the son of Egbert Ludoricus Viele. He was educated in France, dividing his time between Paris and Touraine. His volumes include: *"Cueille d'avril" (1885) *"Les Cygnes" (1887; new series, 1892) *"La Chevauckee d'Yeldis" (1893) *"Swanhilde", a dramatic poem (1894) *"Laus Veneris" (1895), …