Ebook: Selected Verse

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; From Atalanta in Calydon (1865); The First Choral Song; Althaea's Scorn of Prayer; The Second Choral Song; Meleager rejects his Mother's Counsel concerning Atalanta; The Fourth Choral Song; The Herald reports the Slaying of the Boar; From the Sixth Choral Song; Althaea's Final Words, having Burnt the Brand; The Death of Meleager; From Chastelard (1865); From Act 1, scene 3: The Queen and Chastelard (I).; From Act 2, scene 1: The Queen and Chastelard (II).; From Act 3, scene 1: Chastelard steals into the Queen's Bedchamber.;Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was one of English poetry's truly distinctive stylists, ‘a supreme technician, with an unbelievable mastery over sound' (Edith Sitwell). He was one of the major poets of the Victorian era, and almost certainly the most provocative. His ‘pagan' sensualism and masochistic fantasies thrilled and outraged his readers, while the musical textures of his verse both delighted and unsettled. In this new anthology of his finest verse, Swinburne's most celebrated collection, the Poems and Ballads of 1866, is represented much more fully than in earlier selections, an.