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Poems and Ballads: AND Atalanta in Calydon (Penguin Classics) Book

This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND BALLADS brought him notoriety and demonstrates his preoccupation with de Sade, masochism, and femmes fatales. Also reproduced here is 'Notes on Poems and Reviews', a pamphlet Swinburne published in 1866 in response to hostile reviews of POEMS AND BALLADS.Read More

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  • Penguin

    Republican, pagan, a sensualist alive to pleasure and to pain, Swinburne flouted the rules of Victorian decorum and morality in his life and work He created a unique means of expression through what Tennyson called his 'wonderful rhythmic invention', and yet his verse was influenced by poets from numerous periods and countries.

  • Blackwell

    Brings together the author's poetic works, Atalanta in Calydon (1865) and Poems and Ballads (1866). This volume includes notes on poems and reviews. This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, Atalanta in Calydon (1865) and...

  • 0140422501
  • 9780140422504
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • 31 August 2000
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 448
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