Algernon Charles Swinburne: 21st-Century Oxford Authors by Francis O'Gorman

Algernon Charles Swinburne21st-Century Oxford Authors\nAuthor(s): Francis O'Gorman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780199672240, 978-0199672240\nSynopsis\nThis is the first rigorous scholarly edition of a substantial selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne [tel] ever produced. Swinburne was one of the most brilliant and controversial poets of the nineteenth century: a republican; a scorner of established Christianity; a writer of sexual daring; a poet of loss and of love. Yet he is also the most misunderstood poet of the Victorian period. This new edition, with substantial editorial material, presents a new and convincing portrait of a man sharply different from what is usually said of him. Beginning with his unpublished 'Ode to Mazzini' [tel] and ending with his last major critical work on The Age of Shakespeare [tel], this edition offers Swinburne in the round--a man of astonishing consis.