Candid, ambitious and sympathetic, this is a confident and often eloquent volume on a writer who keeps resisting the explanations that we are told best account for him. Immaculately edited, it earns its place among the best of modern writing in Algernon Charles Swinburne - poet and enigma. Francis O'Gorman, Times Literary Supplement, Mischief and other minds, 10/01/2014 |It ... Read moreencourages those interested in Swinburne's work to read him in many different ways and take part in the effort of mapping his vast poetic and critical corpus. , Yisrael Levin, English Literature in Transition 1880 - 1920, 2014 'The chapters provide an enriching blend of perspectives that, to varying degrees, pivot on the ways ‘sexuality itself might help shape, inform, or condition style, poetics, and other aspects of literary practice’. The essays collected in Unofficial Laureate… will be of immense benefit to students, experts, and dilettantes of Swinburne. They are set to cast a long shadow, to galvanize and update Swinburne studies, reigniting the slow-burning interest in this underrated Victorian poet and his work.' Kostas Boyiopoulos, Durham University
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