Dethroning Tennyson [manuscript], ca. 1887.

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Dethroning Tennyson [manuscript], ca. 1887.

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Autograph draft of Swinburne's "contribution to the Tennyson-Darwin controversy," which appeared in the January 1888 issue of Nineteenth century. In this essay, Swinburne parodies the Baconian theory, implying that it is as likely that Darwin wrote the works of Tennyson as it is that Francis Bacon authored the works of Shakespeare.

5 leaves ; 33 x 21 cm.

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