Algernon Charles Swinburne

Francis O'Gorman has written or edited 23 books, largely but not exclusively on English literature of the nineteenth century. Most recently he has published Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (Bloomsbury, 2015) and The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin (2016) together with editions for Oxford World's Classics of Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers (2014) and Trollope's The Way We Live Now (2016). He has published widely on Victorian poetry and next year will see the launch of his edition of Edward Thomas's critical studies on Pater and Swinburne (OUP) and his Forgetfulness: How We Made the Modern Culture of Amnesia (Bloomsbury). Educated as an organ scholar at the University of Oxford, Francis O'Gorman is Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Professor at the Ruskin Centre at the University of Lancaster.

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); 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); 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 ANNEE TERRIBLE (1872); FROM BOTHWELL (1874); FROM SONGS OF TWO NATIONS (1875); FROM DIRAE; 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); FROM A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE (1880); FROM SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES (1880); FROM SPECIMENS OF MODERN POETS: THE HEPTALOGIA OR THE SEVEN AGAINST SENSE: A CAP WITH SEVEN BELLS (1880); POETA LOQUITUR (C.1880N); FROM STUDIES IN SONG (1880); EMILY BRONTE (1883); FROM A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS (1883); FROM A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAYAND OTHER POEMS (1884); FROM POEMS AND BALLADS, THIRD SERIES (1889); RECOLLECTIONS OF PROFESSOR JOWETT (1893); FROM ASTROPHEL AND OTHER POEMS (1894); THE BALLADS OF THE ENGLISH BORDER; FROM A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS (1904); DEDICATION OF ACS S POEMS (LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS 1904); FROM THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE (1908); EXPLANATORY NOTES; FURTHER READING