Major Poems And Selected Prose Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (18371909) is, with Browning and Tennyson, one of the touchstone Victorian poets. He was a major critic and an important fiction writer as well. Emerging out of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, his bold and innovative work made him both a celebrated and controversial writer at home and a figure of international importance. Hugo, Baudelaire, and Mallarme were among his great admirers. Jerome McGann and Charles L. Sligh now present a generous sampling of Swinburne's poetry and prose. This wide-ranging collection satisfies a long need for a comprehensive selection of Swinburne's work. It is accompanied by learned and critically incisive commentaries and notes.Swinburne, Algernon Charles is the author of 'Major Poems And Selected Prose Algernon Charles Swinburne', published 2004 under ISBN 9780300104998 and ISBN 0300104995.