Books written by Algernon Charles Swinburne

  • Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

    Though they be Ill rulers of this household, be not thou Too swift to strike ere time be ripe to strike, Nor then by darkling stroke, against them: I Have erred, who thought by wrong to vanquish wrong, To smite by violence violence, ...

  • Epipsychidion

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • Ave Atque Vale - Hail and Farewell: A Dedication to Charles Baudelaire

    Swinburne's poetry often contains motifs of time, death, and the ocean, as well as references to historical figures including Sappho, Catullus, and Anactoria. “Ave Atque Vale” will appeal to poetry lovers and is not to be missed by ...

  • Selected Poems

    Cf. Baudelaire's 'Lesbos'. 45. It is enough: S. contradicts Baudelaire's poem 'Sed Non Satiata'. 59ff. Cf. Baudelaire's 'La Géante'. 120-21. Orestes laid a lock of his own hair on the tomb of Agamemnon, his murdered father. 129.

  • A Study of Shakespeare

    ... and final estimate of the more special element or peculiar quality in the intellectual force of Honori de Balzac could only have been taken by the inevitable intuition and rendered by the subtlest eloquence of Charles Baudelaire.

  • Selected Verse

    Also included are generous passages from the best of Swinburne's five-act tragedies, which have not been reprinted for nearly a century. Above all, this book is designed to make Swinburne, once again, a poet to be read widely for pleasure.

  • Tristram of Lyonesse

    Tristram of Lyonesse is a long epic poem written by the British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, that recounts in grand fashion the famous medieval story of the ill-fated lovers Tristan and Isolde (Tristram and Iseult in Swinburne's ...

  • We Love Flowers: Classic Poems about Blossoms

    We Love Flowers: Classic Poems about Blossoms

  • Select Poems - Primary Source Edition

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

  • Les Fleurs Du Mal and Other Studies

    Les Fleurs Du Mal and Other Studies

  • Algernon Charles Swinburne: Major Poems and Selected Prose

    The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne . 20 vols . London : Heinemann , 1925–27 . Harrison , Antony H. Swinburne's Medievalism : A Study in Victorian Love Poetry . Baton Rouge : LSU Press , 1988 . Haynes , Kenneth , ed .

  • A Study of Shakespeare

    A Study of Shakespeare

  • Thomas Middleton, Volume 1

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • Victor Hugo: in large print

    Reproduction of the original.

  • Victor Hugo

    We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

  • William Blake: A Critical Essay

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • Essays and Studies

    ... Additional Chapter by HENRY G. BOHN , and 450 fine Illusts . Large 4to , hf.-bd. , 28s . CHAUCER FOR CHILDREN : A Golden Key ... Two Vols . , 8vo , cloth , 24s , CURLY : An Actor's Story . With 21 Illusts . by J. C. DOLLMAN . Cr . 8vo , cl ...

  • The Works Of George Chapman: Homer's Iliad And Odyssey

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

  • Songs Before Sunrise: in large print

    Reproduction of the original.

  • Songs before Sunrise

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.