Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Publisher: Penguin Classics
August 1 2000
EAN: 9780140422504
ISBN: 0140422501
Synopsis: This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND BALLADS brought him notoriety and demonstrates his preoccupation with de Sade masochism and femmes fatales. Also reproduced here is 'Notes on Poems and Reviews' a pamphlet Swinburne published in 1866 in response to hostile reviews of POEMS AND BALLADS.