Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series, Book 32)
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Overview: English poet and critic, outstanding for prosodic innovations and noteworthy as the symbol of mid-Victorian poetic revolt. The characteristic qualities of his verse are insistent alliteration, unflagging rhythmic energy, sheer melodiousness, great variation of pace and stress, effortless expansion of a given theme, and evocative if rather imprecise use of imagery. His poetic style is highly individual and his command of word-colour and word-music striking. Swinburne’s technical gifts and capacity for prosodic invention were extraordinary, but too often his poems’ remorseless rhythms have a narcotic effect, and he has been accused of paying more attention to the melody of words than to their meaning. Swinburne was pagan in his sympathies and passionately antitheist.
Swinburne was also an important and prolific English literary critic of the later 19th century. Among his best critical writings are Essays and Studies (1875) and his monographs on William Shakespeare (1880) and Ben Jonson (1889). His devotion to Shakespeare and his unrivaled knowledge of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama are reflected in his early play Chastelard (1865). The latter work was the first of a trilogy on Mary, queen of Scots, who held a peculiar fascination for him; Bothwell (1874) and Mary Stuart (1881) followed. He also wrote on William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Charles Baudelaire, and his elegy on the latter, Ave Atque Vale (1867–68), is among his finest works.
Genre: Poetry; Victorian Poetry; 19th-Century English Poetry
This volume presents the complete poetical works and plays of Swinburne, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material.
CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections
ATALANTA IN CALYDON
POEMS AND BALLADS (FIRST SERIES)
SONGS OF TWO NATIONS
SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE
ERECHTHEUS
POEMS AND BALLADS (SECOND SERIES)
POEMS AND BALLADS. (THIRD SERIES)
SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES
STUDIES IN SONG
TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE
SONNETS
SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS (1590-1650)
A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY AND OTHER POEMS
A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS
ASTROPHEL AND OTHER POEMS
THE HEPTALOGIA
THE TALE OF BALEN
A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS
POSTHUMOUS AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Verse Dramas
THE QUEEN MOTHER
ROSAMOND
CHASTELARD
BOTHWELL
MARY STUART
MARINO FALIERO
LOCRINE
THE SISTERS
ROSAMUND, QUEEN OF THE LOMBARDS
THE DUKE OF GANDIA
The Novel
LOVE’S CROSS-CURRENTS
Selected Non-Fiction
WILLIAM BLAKE: A CRITICAL ESSAY
THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE
The Biography
THE LIFE OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE by Edmund Gosse
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