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Notes
Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, edd. Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl (1967), IV, 1849-1850.
Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century . . . (1896), II, 333. On the same page Nicoll and Wise also mistakenly identify the subject of the third parody, "The Poet and the Woodlouse," as being Walt Whitman. Swinburne himself may have been the culprit, deliberately misleading them as he apparently did Wise on other occasions: see Wise's complaint in the Bibliography appended to the Bonchurch Edition, XX, 575.
This volume, now part of the Tinker holdings at the Beinecke Library, bears the name of Andrew Chatto on the title page. I am grateful to the Yale University Library for permission to draw upon the volume in the present study.
With no intent to hurt, Swinburne writes to Nichol in 1888: "I wish I could visit you — many thanks for the expressed wish . . . but even if I could on all other accounts I could hardly manage so long a railway journey unless in case of something like a necessity" (Letters, V, 243-244).
For permission to use both this volume and the three Nichol letters, I am indebted to the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox and Tilden Foundations.
"The Chaotic School," in New Writings by Swinburne, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (1964), p. 42. As Lang shows (pp. 199-200), the whole of this one-sided, intemperate piece was written in momentary rage at Browning; the rage over, Swinburne let the manuscript lie. But within the excess is an essential attitude, confirmed in the verse parody.
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