After Poems first appeared on June 23, 1881, Punch was quick to publish an illustration depicting Wilde’s head in a flower with the quotation “Aesthete of Aesthetes! / What’s in a name? / The poet is Wilde / But his poetry’s tame”. A month after Poems was published, Punch elaborated with a review of the book. The review was titled “Swinburne and Water”, a reference to Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). Swinburne was an accomplished lyric poet who was known for rebelling against conservative norms. In the review of Wilde’s poems, Wilde is said to have taken pieces from Swinburne’s writings along with the works of other famous poets. Wilde’s poems are described as “aesthetic, but […] not original” and often “unintelligible”. 

Sources: 

Beckson, Karl, and B. C. Southam. “Introduction.” Oscar Wilde (Routledge), Mar. 1997, pp. 1–21. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=17447089&authtype=shib&site=ehost-live&scope=site. 

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207182/page/n33/mode/2up 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/algernon-charles-swinburne