{"product_id":"algernon-charles-swinburne-9780198858775","title":"Algernon Charles Swinburne","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). This authoritative edition presents students with a new, more complete, more challenging, but also more credible Swinburne than ever before. This edition presents the first rigorous scholarly edition of a substantial selection of Swinburne''s work ever produced. Swinburne was one of the most brilliant and controversial poets of the nineteenth century: a republican; a scorner of established Christianity; a writer of sexual daring; a poet of loss and of love. Yet he is also the most misunderstood poet of the Victorian period. This new edition, with substantial editorial material, presents a new and convincing portrait of a man sharply different from what is usually said of him. Beginning with his unpublished ''Ode to Mazzini'' (1857) and ending with his last major critical work on The Age of Shakespeare (1908), this edition offers Swinburne in the round--a man of astonishing consistency whose formal innovations and critical penetration remain persistently engaging as well as provocative. A major introduction explores Swinburne''s complicated reaction to the scandal of his first major collection, Poems and Ballads (1866); his life-long commitment to radical voices (Blake, Hugo, Landor, Shelley); his permanent hostility to tyranny; his sense of literature as a living form and of the heroic personality of the artist; his dazzling art criticism and adroit analysis of Renaissance and modern literature; his exceptional elegies for dead friends; his burlesques and richly atmospheric fiction and drama. The edition draws on rich contemporary sources, manuscripts, and the diverse print culture of Swinburne''s day, as well as moving through ancient and modern languages that Swinburne wrote with fluency.Explanatory notes and commentary are included to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life of Swinburne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a lively introduction, expertly chosen selections, and a commanding scholarly apparatus, this volume presents a vital poet to a new generation of scholars and students. The full range of Swinburne's long and never-boring career is represented in bursts of poetry and criticism, from the unspeakably beautiful and fearsomely inventive to the politically confused and aesthetically derivative-all of them, for different reasons, fascinating. This definitive edition will help readers know the fullest version of our most enduring literary iconoclast. * Nathan K. Hensley, Georgetown University *\u003cbr\u003eFrancis O'Gorman's excellent edition is the ideal introduction to Swinburne, presenting a generous representative selection of his poetry and prose that includes his best-known work along with some less familiar but significant texts. Meticulously edited and contextualized, this is an edition that will be of enormous value to established scholars and new students alike. * Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary University of London *\u003cbr\u003eO'Gorman's handsome tome is an editorial feat that gives proportinate representation to all Swineburne's phases from the 1850s to the Edwardian period. ... The edition samples iconic poems and pivotal essays whilst recalibrating the Swinburne canon by including obscure yet fascinating work. The mixing of genres according to a rough chronological order offers a panoramic view of Swinburne's development and thematic concerns. * Notes and Queries  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION NOTE ON THE TEXT Ode to Mazzini Of the birth of Sir Tristram, and how he voyaged into Ireland  (Queen Yseult) Letter to the Editor of The Spectator, 7 June 1862 (pp.632-3) [on George Meredith s Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads] Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (The Spectator, 6 September 1862) Dead Love  (1859) Atalanta in Calydon (1865) from  Preface  to A Selection from the Works of Lord Byron (1866) from Poems and Ballads (1866)  Laus Veneris  The Triumph of Time  Les Noyades  Itylus  Anactoria  Hymn to Proserpine  Hermaphroditus  The Leper  Before the Mirror  Dolores  The Garden of Proserpine  Dedication, 1865 from  Mr Arnold s New Poems  (1867) From Chapter 2,  Lyrical Poems , William Blake: A Critical Essay (1868) from  Notes on Designs of the Old Masters at Florence  (1868) from Notes on the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1868 (1868) from  The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti  (1870) from Songs Before Sunrise (1871)  Super flumina Babylonis  Mentana: First Anniversary  The Litany of Nations  Hertha  Before a Crucifix  Tenebræ  Cor Cordium  In San Lorenzo  On the Downs  An Appeal from  Simeon Solomon: Notes on his  Vision of Love and Other Studies   (1871) Tristram and Iseult: Prelude of an Unfinished Poem  (1871) from  Victor Hugo s L Année terrible  (1872) from Bothwell (1874) from Songs of Two Nations (1875) from  Diræ  Celæno  A Choice  The Augurs  A Counsel from  Report of the First Anniversary Meeting of the Newest Shakespeare Society  (1876) from Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade (1876) The Sailing of the Swallow  (1877) from Poems and Ballads, Second Series (1878)  The Last Oracle  A Forsaken Garden  Relics  Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire  Memorial Verses on the Death of Théophile Gautier  Sonnet (With a Copy of Madamemoiselle de Maupin)  In Memory of Barry Cornwall  Inferiae  Cyril Tourneur  A Ballad of François Villon, Prince of All Ballad-Makers  A Vision of Spring in Winter  The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad, which Villon made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to Hanged along with them' From A Study of Shakespeare (1880) from Songs of the Springtides (1880)  Thallasius  On the Cliffs from Specimens of Modern Poets: The Heptalogia or The Seven Against Sense: A Cap with Seven  Bells (1880)  The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell  Nephelidia Poeta Loquitur  (c.1880n) from Studies in Song (1880)  After Nine Years  Evening on the Broads  By the North Sea Emily Brontë  (1883) from A Century of Roundels (1883)  In Harbour  Plus Ultra  The Death of Richard Wagner  Plus Intra  The Roundel  Wasted Love  Before Sunset  A Flower-piece by Fantin  To Catullus   Insularum Ocelle from A Midsummer Holidayand Other Poems (1884) IX.  On the Verge  Lines of the Monument of Giuseppe Mazzini  Les Casquets  In Sepulcretis  On the Death of Richard Doyle  A Solitude  Clear the Way! from Poems and Ballads, Third Series (1889)  March: An Ode  To a Seamew  Neap-Tide  In Time of Mourning  The Interpreters  To Sir Richard F. Burton (On his Translation of the Arabian Nights)  A Reiver s Neck-Verse  The Tyneside Widow Recollections of Professor Jowett  (1893) from Astrophel and Other Poems (1894)  A Nympholept  Loch Torridon: To E.H.  Elegy 1869-91  Threnody October 6, 1892  A Reminiscence  Hawthorn Dyke The Ballads of the English Border from A Channel Passage and Other Poems (1904)  The Lake of Gaube  In a Rosary  Trafalgar Day  Cromwell s Statue  On the Death of Mrs Lynn Linton  Russia: An Ode  Carnot  The Transvaal Dedication of ACS s Poems (London: Chatto \u0026amp; Windus 1904) from The Age of Shakespeare (1908)  Christopher Marlowe EXPLANATORY NOTES FURTHER READING","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083817513303,"sku":"9780198858775","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198858775.jpg?v=1762203922","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/algernon-charles-swinburne-9780198858775","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}