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Algernon Charles Swinburne (Author)

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Publication Date: June 2004

Swift as a shadow and strange as light That cleaves in twain the shadow of night Before the wide-winged word takes flight That thunder speaks to depth and height And quells the quiet hour with sound.

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Paperback: 76 pages
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (June 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 141918475X
ISBN-13: 978-1419184758
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.1 inches
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Camelot in the Nineteenth Century: Arthurian Characters in the Poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris, and Swinburne (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) by Robert Thomas Lambdin on 7 pages
A Study of Swinburne by T. Earle Welby on 5 pages
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Joseph Bristow on page 216
Students' Handbook of the Facts of English Literature by J. F. a. Pyre on page 24
The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole on page 34

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