Timeline |
1837 |
Born 5 April |
1849 |
Attends Eton |
1856 |
Attends Balliol College, Oxford, meets William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Gabriel Rossetti |
1860 |
The Queen Mother and Rosamond published |
1862 |
Lives with Rossetti at Tudor House in Chelsea |
1865 |
Atalanta in Calydon published |
1865 |
Chastelard published |
1866 |
Poems and Ballads published |
1867 |
A Song of Italy published |
1868 |
William Blake: A Critical Essay |
1871 |
Songs before Sunrise published |
1874 |
Bothwell published |
1875 |
Songs of Two Nations, Essays and Studies |
1876 |
Erechtheus |
1877 |
A Year's Letters published under the pseudonym Mrs. Horace Manners, father dies |
1878 |
Poems and Ballads, Second Series |
1879 |
Suffers breakdown, moves in with his legal advisor, Theodore Watts-Duncan |
1880 |
A Study of Shakespeare, Songs of the Springtides, Studies in Song, The Heptalogia, or The Seven Against Sense |
1881 |
Mary Stuart published |
1882 |
Tristram of Lyonesse published |
1883 |
A Century of Roundels |
1884 |
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems |
1885 |
Marino Faliero |
1887 |
Gathered Songs, Locrine |
1889 |
Study of Ben Jonson, Poems and Ballads, Third Series |
1892 |
The Sisters |
1894 |
Astrophel and Other Poems and Studies in Prose and Poetry |
1896 |
The Tale of Balen, Swinburne's mother dies |
1899 |
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards |
1904 |
A Channel Passage and Other Poems |
1908 |
The Age of Shakespeare and The Duke of Gandia |
1909 |
Three Plays of Shakespeare, dies 10 April |