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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Selected Writings (Paperback)
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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Selected Writings (Paperback)
Series: 21st-Century Oxford Authors
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This 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 Beginning with his unpublished 'Ode to Mazzini' (1857)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.
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