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. 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. From Poems and Ballads, First Series (1866)A Ballad of Life A Ballad of Death Laus Veneris The Triumph of Time Les Noyades A Leave-Taking Anactoria Hymn to Proserpine Ilicet Hermaphroditus Fragoletta Rondel Satia Te Sanguine A Lamentation Anima Anceps In the Orchard A Match Faustine Rococo Stage Love The Leper A Ballad of Burdens Rondel Before the Mirror Before Dawn Dolores The Garden of Proserpine Before Parting The Sundew Félise Hendecasyllabics Sapphics At Eleusis August St. Dorothy The Two Dreams The King's Daughter After Death The Year of Love. From Songs Before Sunrise (1871)Prelude Hertha Before a Crucifix Genesis The Oblation From Bothwell (1874) From Act 1, scene 3: The Queen grants audience to John Knox. From Act 1, scene 5: After the interview with Knox. From Act 2, scene 1: Escape from Holyrood. From Act 2, scene 6: At the Castle of Alloa. From Act 2, scene 9: The Queen's illness at Jedburgh. From Act 2, scene 15: Bothwell meditates the murder of Darnley (I). From Act 2, scene 18: Bothwell meditates the murder of Darnley (II). From Act 3, scene 2: The Queen takes her leave of the murdered Darnley. From Act 5, scene 2: The Queen incarcerated at Lochleven. The Queen is presented with a bond to sign. From Act 5, scene 4: The Queen's conference with Murray, appointed Regent of Scotland. From Act 5, scene 11: The Queen flees from the Battle of Langside. From Act 5, scene 13: The Queen's departure for England. At the shore of Solway Firth. From Poems And Ballads, Second Series (1878) A Forsaken Garden A Wasted Vigil The Complaint of Lisa Ave Atque Vale A Ballad of Dreamland Before Sunset Triads Translations from the French of Villon: The Complaint of the Fair Armouress. Fragment on DeathBallad against the Enemies of France The Dispute of the Heart and the Body of François Villon Epistle in form of a Ballad to his Friends Epitaph in form of a Ballad From Studies in Song (1880) From By the North Sea From Tristram of Lyonesse (1882) From Book 1: Iseult of Ireland aboard the Swallow, bound for Cornwall. From Book 2: Iseult of Ireland is abducted by Sir Palamede and rescued by Sir Tristram. From Book 3: Sir Tristram, exiled in Brittany, encounters Iseult of the Fair Hands. Book 5: Iseult at Tintagel. 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, and ample extracts are given from his later masterpiece, Tristram of Lyonesse (1882). Also included are generous passages from the best of Swinburne's five-act tragedies, which have not been reprinted for nearly a century. Above all, this book is designed to make Swinburne, once again, a poet to be read widely for pleasure. No one else has made such music in English', wrote Ezra Pound; The splendid lines mount up in one's memory and overwhelm any minute restrictions of one's praise'. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was one of English poetry's truly distinctive stylists. Next to Tennyson and Browning, he was one of the major poets of the Victorian era—and he was almost certainly the most provocative. In this new selection, Swinburne's first major collection, the Poems and Ballads of 1866, is represented much more fully than in earlier selections, and ample extracts are given from his later masterpiece, the Arthurian epic Tristram of Lyonesse (1882). This edition also includes generous passages from the best of Swinburne's five-act tragedies, Chastelard and Bothwell, which have not been reprinted for nearly a century.