Major Poems and Selected Prose

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 Mallarm were among his great admirers.
Jerome McGann and Charles L. Sligh now present a generous sampling of Swinburnes poetry and prose. This wide-ranging collection satisfies a long need for a comprehensive selection of Swinburnes work. It is accompanied by learned and critically incisive commentaries and notes.