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Mr. Swinburne is already the Poet Laureate of England. The fact that his appointment to this high post has not been degraded by official confirmation renders his position all the more unassailable. He whom all poets love is the Laureate Poet always.
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Oscar Wilde, The Idler (April 1895).

 

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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