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Describes how a Virginia law forbidding state employees to access sexually explicit material on state-owned computers without written permission from their agency's head has "plagued" one professor, requiring numerous incidents of permission-seeking regarding Victorian poetry. (EV)

The article discusses the acquisition of an authentic manuscript of Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem "The Garden of Proserpine" by the William & Mary library for the Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana. The manuscript, commissioned by H. Buxton Forman, is described as a fair copy and includes handwritten notes by Forman. The manuscript is compared to the printed version in Poems and Ballads (1866), noting minor differences in punctuation and wording. [Extracted from the article]

Two previously unknown Algernon Charles Swinburne poems have been discovered, 'Milton' and 'Tristram of Lyonesse,' the second in the British Library's Ashley Collection and the first as a signed holograph. 'Milton' is actually three stanzas from the longer work 'The Eve of Revolution' possibly made to stand alone when it looked unlikely that the whole ode could be published. 'Tristram of Lyonesse' was strongly influenced by Richard Wagner and was written for 'La Renaissance litteraire et artistique' at the magazines request. However, the poem was rejected for its poor French.

'The Story of Catherine' by Annie Charlotte Ogle may support the scholars who believe Algernon Charles Swinburne's first cousin Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon Leith was Swinburne's lost love. Correspondence between Swinburne and Mary Louisa Molesworth revealed Swinburne's involvement in Ogle's writing and the story is a close parallel of Leith's life. The novel clearly shows Swinburne's involvement because it includes his philosophies of life and art as well as period of his life.

The article reports that Thomas Day published a fragmentary letter that he had composed in 1776 as that letter described the general suffering of the enslaved and the particulars of a slave auction in the ‘southern colonies' of British North America. Topics include examines Jenny Uglow has documented the wide and deep intellectual curiosity of the members of the Lunar Society and their interest in virtually everything.

Bibliographers often overlook the first publication of two war poems Swinburne wrote to rally patriotic feelings in the heat of the Second Boer War. 'Reverse' appeared for the first time in the London Illustrated News, November 21, 1899, and is handsomely illustrated on a full folio page, while 'The Turning of the Tide' appeared in The Times on March 1, 1900.

The article offers information on the views and works of the former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson on education. It mentions that Jefferson linked education to liberty and governance, and his scheme for publically supported education was closed to African Americans. It also mentions about educating African American children.

The article offers information on slavery considerations at the College of William & Mary in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It reflects certain narratives regarding the issues of slavery in the College that deals with the concerns related to suppression of the subject by silence and mythologizing slavery as a benefit. It also discusses Judge Alfred L. Brophy's article that reflected the viewpoints of the College's professors George Wythe and St. George Tucker.

The article explores poet and literary critic Algernon Swinburne's appreciation for the work of poet Percy Shelley. According to the author, by looking at Swinburne's thoughts on Shelley, the aesthetic of melody that appeared in his work can be further examined. Other topics covered include Swinburne's thoughts on poem Samuel Coleridge, English lyric poetry, and poetry appreciation.