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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was one of English poetry's truly distinctive stylists. Next to Tennyson and Browning, he was one of the major poets of the Victorian era—and he was almost certainly the most provocative. In this new selection, Swinburne's first major collection, the Poems and Ballads of 1866, is represented much more fully than in earlier selections, and ample extracts are given from his later masterpiece, the Arthurian epic Tristram of Lyonesse (1882). This edition also includes generous passages from the best of Swinburne's five-act tragedies, Chastelard and Bothwell, which have not been reprinted for nearly a century.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- From atalanta in calydon (1865)
- From chastelard (1865)
- From poems and ballads, first series (1866)
- From songs before sunrise (1871)
- From bothwell (1874)
- From poems and ballads, second series (1878)
- From studies in song (1880)
- From tristram of lyonesse (1882)
- From a century of roundels (1883)
- From a midsummer holiday and other poems (1884)
- From poems and ballads, third series (1889)
- From astrophel and other poems (1894)
- From a channel passage and other poems (1904)
- Introductory Notes to the Longer Works
- Explanatory Notes
- Further Reading
- Index of Titles and First Lines
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