And Now What Mr. Swinburne?

Been reading a biography of Queen Victoria. Hundreds of pages. What a supremely uninteresting and peevish human being she was!

And her favorite poet was Tennyson. Poor Swinburne. Poor Kipling.

How sad. No trips to Balmoral for seances for those guys.

 

 

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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