Selected Poems

His roots are in the Elizabethans: he loved Landor and Whitman, Johnson and Blake, Baudelaire and the Marquis de Sade. His inclusiveness is tonic. His poems are radical in many ways. This selection draws on the full range of his poetry and includes an introduction and notes.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, L.M. Findlay

Introduction A Note on the Text From Rosamond From Atlanta in Calydon From Chastelard From Poems and Ballads, First Series From Songs before Sunrise From Bothwell: A Tragedy From Erectheus: A Tragedy From Poems and Ballads, Second Series From Songs of the Springtides From Studies in Song From the Heptalogia From Tristam of Lyonesse and Other Poems From a Century of Roundels From a Midsummer Holiday and other Poems From poems and Ballads, Third series From Astrophel and Other Poems From a Channel Passage and Other Poems From Posthumous Poems Notes and Further Reading Index of First Lines