Poems and Balads and Atalanta in Calydon

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140422501
• ISBN13: 9780140422504
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher