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# Poems and Ballads and Atalanta in Calydon

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Reading of "Dolores" lines 265-312
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2011*

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    The editor of this Penguin Classics selection of Swinburne's poetry, Kenneth Hayes, writes of "Dolores" that she is Swinburne's anti-Madonna" and that in the poem his "paganism is tinged with his own interest in sadomasochism."One can well see why High-Victorian heads were turned when poems like this one were published,and Swinburne was accused of blasphemy etc. as the publishers were forced to withdraw his "Poems and Ballads" for a time.To read Swinburne is to luxuriate in the English language, and whilst one detects the influences of Shelley, Baudelaire et al and his own immersion in the Classical Greek tragedians, his verse-style is certainly his own and non other's.  I couldn't imagine anyone familiar with even one or two of his poems opening this book at any page and not recognising, in the rich musicality and facility with the depths of language, Swinburne's hallmarks.My reading of a part of the poem - necessitated, alas, by Amazon's restrictions on video size - does not, of course do Swinburne justice, but my hope is that this small fragment will whet the reader's appetite for a poetry uniquely rich and strange.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great collection of the early Swinburne
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2008*

How strange it is that a poet who burst on the scene like a thunderbolt in the 1860s is all but forgotten today. Perhaps we have Eliot to blame: his comments on Swinburne are certainly pervasive in all latter-day criticism on the poet. Others might say that the relevance of his poetry, with its devastating and blasphemous anti-christianity, its violent portrayal of atypical and obscene sexuality, and its recurring death-wish, is tied in with the period that created them.Yet I beg to differ. Famous lines like "the supreme evil, God" and "There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep" may strike home more powerfully in the changing but still thoroughly Christian world of mid-nineteenth century England, but the sentiments expressed apply just as well to our times. Swinburne was, besides many other things, a poet of freedom at all costs, the heir of Blake, Shelley and the French Revolution. His tirades against Christianity are essentially tirades against oppression, against the soul's oppression of the body and the church's oppression of her followers, and as long as there are people who are not free, his voice is one to be heard.Nor is it all blasphemy with Swinburne. In fact, perhaps the most highly rated poem in this volume is "The Triumph of Time", a long lament over lost love in which Swinburne displays all his technichal virtuosity without losing out in emotional content. Memorable lines may stand out, "I have woven a veil for the weeping face / whose lips have drunken the wine of tears", "Wrecked hope and passionate pain will grow / to tender things on a spring-tide sea", but singling them out is like singling out notes in Beethoven's Ninth. Swinburne's poetry is musical in more than only the sound of his language: it is musical also in its very structure, its non-linearity and in its constant appeal to the emotions. To experience it fully, you must, at least for moment, allow yourself to be swept away by the thundering currents and roaring rapids of his angry verses, and to move with the neverending tides of his slow and mournful sea-music.The effort is well worth it indeed, and this volume is an excellent place to start.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Forgotten Genius
  

*by H***G on Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2014*

Algernon Charles Swinburne may be one of the most famous (in his day) poets that I had never heard of.  He wrote incredibly moving poetry about darkness and light, passion and despair.  Individual lines stick with you."You have forgotten, O summer swallow / But the world will end when I forget."and"But for a while we live, and life has mutable wings."His poems are longer epics, out of favor in the modern age, but worth savoring.

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