* April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet ( d. 1909 )

Examples include the poet Algernon Swinburne ( as implied repeatedly in his poetry ) and the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as detailed in his autobiography Confessions:

The Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne agreed and called it " The noblest hold in all the North.

Tintagel is used as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls of the King and Algernon Charles Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse is one of the versions of the Tristan and Iseult legends where some of the events are set at Tintagel.

* Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet and Nobel prize nominee, lived and died at The Pines, at the foot of Putney Hill

* Algernon Charles Swinburne ( poet )

Lancing was also visited by another poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne, who stayed at The Terrace in the 1880s.

The character of the duchess recalls the Victorian poet and essayist Algernon Charles Swinburne's comment in A Study of Shakespeare that in tragedies such as King Lear Shakespeare had shown such a bleak world as a foil or backdrop for virtuous heroines such as Ophelia and Imogen, so that their characterisation would not seem too incredible.

Towards the end of the 20th century, a more " cultured " form of erotica began to appear by such as the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne who pursued themes of paganism, lesbianism and sado-masochism in such works as Lesbia Brandon and in contributions to The Whippingham Papers ( 1888 ) edited by St George Stock, author of The Romance of Chastisement ( 1866 ).

The chief inspiration for the character of the Lady of Pain is the 19th century poem Dolores ( Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs ) ( literally, Our Lady of Seven Pains ), by English Decadent poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne said in a letter that he had climbed the cliffs at 17, in order to prove his manhood to his family after they refused to let him join the army.

In 1882 he wrote a short story for Le Gaulois entitled " The Englishman of Étretat " ( L ' Anglais d ' Étretat ), based on encounters in 1868, as a house guest of G. E. J. Powell, with the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he had helped save from drowning.

** Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet

A similar form is the French rondel and its English variant called roundel, devised by the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

His eldest son was the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne grew up at Bonchurch, and said in a letter that he had climbed Culver Cliff at 17.

Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE ( 14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984 ) was an English artist, historian and poet.

As a student at the Royal Academy Schools, Solomon was introduced through Dante Gabriel Rossetti to other members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, as well as the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne and the painter Edward Burne-Jones in 1857.

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet ( d. 1994 )

* 1935 – Charles Wright, American poet

* 1946 – Charles Ghigna, American poet and author

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

Charles first appeared on television as a performance poet, which led on to minor presenting roles.

Charles began his career as a contemporary and urban performance poet on the British cabaret circuit.

Charles first appeared on television as the resident poet on the arts programme Riverside on BBC2, and on the day-time BBC1 chat show Pebble Mill at One.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

* 1910 – Charles Olson, American poet ( d. 1970 )

* 1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet ( d. 1823 )

* 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier ( b. 1638 )

* 1638 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet ( d. 1706 )

* 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist ( d. 1914 )

* 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

* 1860 – Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet and writer ( d. 1943 )

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

Responding in part to Wheeler in 1986, Charles Rzepka analysed the relationship between the poet and the audience of the poem while describing Kubla Khan as one of " Coleridge's three great poems of the supernatural ".

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.

* 1938 – Charles Simic, Yugoslavian poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

David Charles Mooney Australian poet

* 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet ( d. 1465 )

Boniface also placed the city of Florence under an interdict and invited the ambitious French Count Charles of Valois to enter Italy in 1300 to end the feud of Black and White Guelphs, the poet Dante being in the party of the Whites.