Swinburne’s literary output is vast and includes poems, plays, novels, short stories and essays on literary criticism.
Swinsburne’s pamphlet Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade was published in London in 1876. Swinburne had strong political views and writes with a certain hostility about Thomas Carlyle's views on the war between Turkey and Russia.
The Russo-Turkish War was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and a coalition led by the Russian Empire which included Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro. Fought in the Balkans and in the Caucasus, it originated in emerging 19th-century Balkan nationalism.