Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909) is generally considered a minor English poet and even that only for his early work, but the scholars of English literature here strive to change that perception.
Discussing the thematic, intellectual, and formal features of his mature work, they consider knowledge and sense experience, conceptual networks in Songs of the Springtides, his myth of
creation, Swinburne and the north, the verbal whirlwind of his Shakespeare, a channel passage and France, his friendships with women writers, and selecting Swinburne. Annotation 穢2010 Book
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