Description
Product ID: | 9780140422504 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon |
Authors: | Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Kenneth Haynes |
Page Count: | 464 |
Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
Description: | Brings together the author's poetic works, "Atalanta in Calydon" (1865) and "Poems and Ballads" (1866). This volume includes notes on poems and reviews. 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 1866 in response to hostile reviews of POEMS AND BALLADS. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2000-08-31 |