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DRAMATISTS > poet, critic > Algernon Charles Swinburne
For a day...
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For a day and a night and a morrow,
That his strength might endure for a span
With travail and heavy sorrow,
The holy spirit of man.
Source: Atalanta in Calydon, Chorus, `Before the Beginning of Years'
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne, (Apr 5 1837-1909), English poet, critic; He was the symbol of mid-Victorian poetic revolt due to his outstanding prosodic innovations, e.g., insistent alliteration and sheer melodiousness.