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.

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)
Laus Veneris
The Triumph of Time
Les Noyades
Itylus
Anactoria
Hymn to Proserpine
Hermaphroditus
The Leper
Before the Mirror
Dolores
The Garden of Proserpine
Dedication, 1865
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)
Super flumina Babylonis
Mentana: First Anniversary
The Litany of Nations
Hertha
Before a Crucifix
Tenebræ
Cor Cordium
In San Lorenzo
On the Downs
An Appeal
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 Année terrible (1872)
from Bothwell (1874)
from Songs of Two Nations (1875)
from Diræ
Celæno
A Choice
The Augurs
A Counsel
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)
The Last Oracle
A Forsaken Garden
Relics
Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire
Memorial Verses on the Death of Théophile Gautier
Sonnet (With a Copy of Madamemoiselle de Maupin)
In Memory of Barry Cornwall
Inferiae
Cyril Tourneur
A Ballad of François Villon, Prince of All Ballad-Makers
A Vision of Spring in Winter
The 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)
Thallasius
On the Cliffs
from Specimens of Modern Poets: The Heptalogia or The Seven Against Sense: A Cap with Seven Bells (1880)
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
Nephelidia
Poeta Loquitur (c.1880n)
from Studies in Song (1880)
After Nine Years
Evening on the Broads
By the North Sea
Emily Brontë (1883)
from A Century of Roundels (1883)
In Harbour
Plus Ultra
The Death of Richard Wagner
Plus Intra
The Roundel
Wasted Love
Before Sunset
A Flower-piece by Fantin
To Catullus
Insularum Ocelle
from A Midsummer Holidayand Other Poems (1884)
IX. On the Verge
Lines of the Monument of Giuseppe Mazzini
Les Casquets
In Sepulcretis
On the Death of Richard Doyle
A Solitude
Clear the Way!
from Poems and Ballads, Third Series (1889)
March: An Ode
To a Seamew
Neap-Tide
In Time of Mourning
The Interpreters
To Sir Richard F. Burton (On his Translation of the Arabian Nights)
A Reiver s Neck-Verse
The Tyneside Widow
Recollections of Professor Jowett (1893)
from Astrophel and Other Poems (1894)
A Nympholept
Loch Torridon: To E.H.
Elegy 1869-91
Threnody October 6, 1892
A Reminiscence
Hawthorn Dyke
The Ballads of the English Border
from A Channel Passage and Other Poems (1904)
The Lake of Gaube
In a Rosary
Trafalgar Day
Cromwell s Statue
On the Death of Mrs Lynn Linton
Russia: An Ode
Carnot
The Transvaal
Dedication of ACS s Poems (London: Chatto & Windus 1904)
from The Age of Shakespeare (1908)
Christopher Marlowe
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