Algernon Charles Swinburne - O'Gorman, Francis

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Résumé :
This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). This authoritative edition presents students with a new, more complete, more challenging, but also more credible Swinburne than ever before. This edition presents the first rigorous scholarly edition of a substantial selection of Swinburne's work ever produced. Swinburne was one of the most brilliant and controversial poets of the nineteenth century: a republican...

Biographie:
Francis O'Gorman has written widely on English literature chiefly from 1780 to the present, and mostly, but not exclusively, on poetry and non-fictional prose. His recent books include editions of Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers (Oxford World's Classics, 2014), and Trollope's The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics, 2016). He edited The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin (CUP, 2015) and, most recently, volume 5 of Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition (OUP, 2017). His Worrying: A Cultural and Literary History (Bloomsbury, 2015) was a Guardian 'book of the week'. Francis O'Gorman was educated at the University of Oxford as Organ Scholar of Lady Margaret Hall and is now Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the university of Einburgh....

Sommaire:

• INTRODUCTION
• NOTE ON THE TEXT
• Ode to Mazzini
• Of the birth of Sir Tristram, and how he voyaged into Ireland (Queen Yseult)
• Letter to the Editor of The Spectator, 7 June 1862 (pp.632-3) [on George Meredith s Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads]
• Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (The Spectator, 6 September 1862)
• Dead Love (1859)
• Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
• from Preface to A Selection from the Works of Lord Byron (1866)
• from Poems and Ballads (1866)
• Laus Veneris
• The Triumph of Time
• Les Noyades
• Itylus
• Anactoria
• Hymn to Proserpine
• Hermaphroditus
• The Leper
• Before the Mirror
• Dolores
• The Garden of Proserpine
• Dedication, 1865
• from Mr Arnold s New Poems (1867)
• From Chapter 2, Lyrical Poems , William Blake: A Critical Essay (1868)
• from Notes on Designs of the Old Masters at Florence (1868)
• from Notes on the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1868 (1868)
• from The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870)
• from Songs Before Sunrise (1871)
• Super flumina Babylonis
• Mentana: First Anniversary
• The Litany of Nations
• Hertha
• Before a Crucifix
• Tenebr?
• Cor Cordium
• In San Lorenzo
• On the Downs
• An Appeal
• from Simeon Solomon: Notes on his Vision of Love and Other Studies (1871)
• Tristram and Iseult: Prelude of an Unfinished Poem (1871)
• from Victor Hugo s L Ann?e terrible (1872)
• from Bothwell (1874)
• from Songs of Two Nations (1875)
• from Dir?
• Cel?no
• A Choice
• The Augurs
• A Counsel
• from Report of the First Anniversary Meeting of the Newest Shakespeare Society (1876)
• from Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade (1876)
• The Sailing of the Swallow (1877)
• from Poems and Ballads, Second Series (1878)
• The Last Oracle
• A Forsaken Garden
• Relics
• Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire
• Memorial Verses on the Death of Th?ophile Gautier
• Sonnet (With a Copy of Madamemoiselle de Maupin)
• In Memory of Barry Cornwall
• Inferiae
• Cyril Tourneur
• A Ballad of Fran?ois Villon, Prince of All Ballad-Makers
• A Vision of Spring in Winter
• The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad, which Villon made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to Hanged along with them'
• From A Study of Shakespeare (1880)
• from Songs of the Springtides (1880)
• Thallasius
• On the Cliffs
• from Specimens of Modern Poets: The Heptalogia or The Seven Against Sense: A Cap with Seven Bells (1880)
• The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
• Nephelidia
• Poeta Loquitur (c.1880n)
• from Studies in Song (1880)
• After Nine Years
• Evening on the Broads
• By the North Sea
• Emily Bront? (1883)
• from A Century of Roundels (1883)
• In Harbour
• Plus Ultra
• The De...