Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A collection of essays about nine poets and writers who were working during Shakespeare's lifetime. Gathered here are insightful portraits of Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Heywood, George Chapman, and Cyril Tourneur.
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This 1886 collection of critical and historical essays by the trailblazing English poet includes "Short Notes on English Poets," "A Century of English Poetry," "Congreve," "Collins," "Wordsworth and Byron," "Emily Brontë," "Mary Queen of Scots," "Keats," and others-these essays contain strength as well as ironic humor.
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"Sonnets, and Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650)" by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all...
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The great Victorian poet offers essays on Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, Philip Massinger, John Say, Robert Davenport, Thomas Nabbes, Richard Brome, James Shirley, Beaumont, and Fletcher. Swinburne's deep love, complete study, and worship of the Elizabethan and Jacobean writers shines through on every page.
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First published in 1868, "Ave Atque Vale" is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne dedicated to French poet, art critic, and essayist Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821—1867). Baudelaire's wonderful poems are known for their masterful use of rhyme and rhythm which, together with their Romantic exoticism, inspired a whole generation of poets including Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837—1909) was...
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This 1915 edition of a collection of critical writings by the heralded English writer includes "The Journal of Sir Walter Scott," "Beaumont and Fletcher," "Social Verse," "Wilkie Collins," "Whitmania," "Tennyson or Darwin?", Eight articles on "The Posthumous Works of Victor Hugo," "Recollections of Professor Jowett," "John Webster," "Robert Herrick," and others. Swinburne makes his point in each essay, not seeming to care who he offends.
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"Erechtheus. A Tragedy" by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to...
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The Springtide of Life – Poems of Childhood is an anthology, collected by Edmund Gosse, containing Algernon Charles Swinburne's enchanting verses for children. Swinburne (1837 – 1909) was a celebrated English poet and playwright, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in every year from 1903 to 1907, and again in 1909. His poems are here decorated with the delicate and romantic illustrations of Arthur Rackham. Gosse once told Rackham that "this...