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Best known for his sexually provocative Poems and Ballads (1866), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was much admired throughout the 19th-century for his daring subject matter and superb poetic craftsmanship. After a decline in popularity in the twentieth century, his reputation has steadily recovered, and he is now becoming more widely read and studied. This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections - Poems and Ballads 1 (1866), Songs before Sunrise (1871) and Poems and Ballads 2 (1878), as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close ... Read more
Best known for his sexually provocative Poems and Ballads (1866), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was much admired throughout the 19th-century for his daring subject matter and superb poetic craftsmanship. After a decline in popularity in the twentieth century, his reputation has steadily recovered, and he is now becoming more widely read and studied. This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections - Poems and Ballads 1 (1866), Songs before Sunrise (1871) and Poems and Ballads 2 (1878), as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746311066
SKU
V9780746311066
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Ref
99-50
About Catherine Maxwell
Catherine Maxwell is Reader in Victorian Literature, in The School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London.
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