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Algernon Charles Swinburne, a Balliol man of brilliance who studied under Jowett, was in possession of uneven talents. A true Shelleyan, here is one of his enjoyably worst, utterly dreadful, poems to that 'poet beloved above all other poets, being beyond all other poets'.
"One man is as good as another until he has written a book."
-- Benjamin Jowett
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Just spent a lovely day at my old school Balliol Primary School in Kempston. I was chuffed to be asked to paint this ‘Rain Before Rainbows’ picture on the corridor just up from my old classroom….1/2 @SmritiPH @BIGPictureBooks