Algernon Charles Swinburne

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.

• INTRODUCTIONNOTE ON THE TEXTOde to MazziniOf 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 VenerisThe Triumph of TimeLes NoyadesItylusAnactoriaHymn to ProserpineHermaphroditusThe LeperBefore the MirrorDoloresThe Garden of ProserpineDedication, 1865from 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 BabylonisMentana: First AnniversaryThe Litany of NationsHerthaBefore a CrucifixTenebræCor CordiumIn San LorenzoOn the DownsAn Appealfrom 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 Année terrible (1872)from Bothwell (1874)from Songs of Two Nations (1875)from DiræCelænoA ChoiceThe AugursA Counselfrom 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 OracleA Forsaken GardenRelicsAve Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles BaudelaireMemorial Verses on the Death of Théophile GautierSonnet (With a Copy of Madamemoiselle de Maupin)In Memory of Barry CornwallInferiaeCyril TourneurA Ballad of François Villon, Prince of All Ballad-MakersA Vision of Spring in WinterThe 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)ThallasiusOn the Cliffsfrom Specimens of Modern Poets: The Heptalogia or The Seven Against Sense: A Cap with Seven Bells (1880)The Higher Pantheism in a NutshellNephelidiaPoeta Loquitur (c.1880n)from Studies in Song (1880)After Nine YearsEvening on the BroadsBy the North SeaEmily Brontë (1883)from A Century of Roundels (1883)In HarbourPlus UltraThe Death of Richard WagnerPlus IntraThe RoundelWasted LoveBefore SunsetA Flower-piece by FantinTo CatullusInsularum Ocellefrom A Midsummer Holidayand Other Poems (1884)IX. On the VergeLines of the Monument of Giuseppe MazziniLes CasquetsIn SepulcretisOn the Death of Richard DoyleA SolitudeClear the Way!from Poems and Ballads, Third Series (1889)March: An OdeTo a SeamewNeap-TideIn Time of MourningThe InterpretersTo Sir Richard F. Burton (On his Translation of the Arabian Nights)A Reiver s Neck-VerseThe Tyneside WidowRecollections of Professor Jowett (1893)from Astrophel and Other Poems (1894)A NympholeptLoch Torridon: To E.H.Elegy 1869-91Threnody October 6, 1892A ReminiscenceHawthorn DykeThe Ballads of the English Borderfrom A Channel Passage and Other Poems (1904)The Lake of GaubeIn a RosaryTrafalgar DayCromwell s StatueOn the Death of Mrs Lynn LintonRussia: An OdeCarnotThe TransvaalDedication of ACS s Poems (London: Chatto & Windus 1904)from The Age of Shakespeare (1908)Christopher MarloweEXPLANATORY NOTESFURTHER READING

With a lively introduction, expertly chosen selections, and a commanding scholarly apparatus, this volume presents a vital poet to a new generation of scholars and students. The full range of Swinburne's long and never-boring career is represented in bursts of poetry and criticism, from the unspeakably beautiful and fearsomely inventive to the politically confused and aesthetically derivative-all of them, for different reasons, fascinating. This definitive edition will help readers know the fullest version of our most enduring literary iconoclast.