SWINBURNE

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• SWINBURNE (noun)
  The noun SWINBURNE has 1 sense:

1. English poet (1837-1909)

  Familiarity information: SWINBURNE used as a noun is very rare.

• SWINBURNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English poet (1837-1909)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Algernon Charles Swinburne; Swinburne

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

One of the volumes was a Swinburne.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As he had read pessimism into Omar, so now he read triumph, stinging triumph and exultation, into Swinburne’s lines.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When we overlaid the radio and optical images, we could see straight away that the fast radio burst pierced the halo of this coincident foreground galaxy and, for the first time, we had a direct way of investigating the otherwise invisible matter surrounding this galaxy, said coauthor Cherie Day, a PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)

He took the Browning and the Swinburne from the chair and kissed them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Swinburne! he would remember that name.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He read more of Swinburne than was contained in the volume Ruth had lent him; and "Dolores" he understood thoroughly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But Swinburne had, and Tennyson, and Kipling, and all the other poets.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

That was the meaning of it all; he had been drifting that way all the time, and now Swinburne showed him that it was the happy way out.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Martin placed the Swinburne and Browning on the chair, took off his coat, and sat down on the bed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He chanced upon a volume of Swinburne and began reading steadily, forgetful of where he was, his face glowing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)