His roots are in the Elizabethans: he loved Landor and Whitman, Johnson and Blake, Baudelaire and the Marquis de Sade. His inclusiveness is tonic. His poems are radical in many ways. This selection draws on the full range of his poetry and includes an introduction and notes.
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The most important forgotten poet.,
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This review is from: Selected Poems (Fyfield Books) (Hardcover)
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casually dismisses Swinburne's work by saying
that, although his verse is often dazzingly
complex with intricate rhyme and metrical schemes,
the work itself is "spiritually shallow."
In fact, Swinburne's message may never have had more spiritual relevance than it does now. A rogue among the Victorians, Swinburne still has the ability to shock. Rather than glorying in Nature like his fellow Romantics, Swinburne is more realistic, seeing nature as a harsh, if beautiful, mistress. He also foresees a diminishment of organized religions in favor of earthier, almost Pagan ideals that make him a spiritual brother to Blake. Swinburne rescued Blake from nearly a century of obscurity. Maybe it's time readers do the same for Swinburne.
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- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin in Back Matter
- The Holy Grail by Alfred Tennyson in Back Matter
- Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare in Back Matter
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- Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism (Studies in Arthurian and Court) by Jennifer Palmgren on page 145, page 146, and Back Matter
- Selected Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Proteus: The Language Of Metamorphosis (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Carla Dente on page 203, and page 270
- Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians by Michael Wheeler in Back Matter
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