{"product_id":"algernon-charles-swinburne-selected-writings-paperback","title":"Algernon Charles Swinburne: Selected Writings - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancis O'Gorman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). This authoritative edition presents students with a new, more complete, more challenging, but also more credible Swinburne than ever before. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition presents the first rigorous scholarly edition of a substantial selection of Swinburne's work ever produced. Swinburne was one of the most brilliant and controversial poets of the nineteenth century: a republican; a scorner of established Christianity; a writer of sexual daring; a poet of loss and of love. Yet he is also the most misunderstood poet of the Victorian period. This new edition, with substantial editorial material, presents a new and convincing portrait of a man sharply different from what is usually said of him. Beginning with his unpublished 'Ode to Mazzini' (1857) and ending with his last major critical work on \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e (1908), this edition offers Swinburne in the round--a man of astonishing consistency whose formal innovations and critical penetration remain persistently engaging as well as provocative. A major introduction explores Swinburne's complicated reaction to the scandal of his first major collection, \u003cem\u003ePoems and Ballads\u003c\/em\u003e (1866); his\u003cbr\u003elife-long commitment to radical voices (Blake, Hugo, Landor, Shelley); his permanent hostility to tyranny; his sense of literature as a living form and of the heroic personality of the artist; his dazzling art criticism and adroit analysis of Renaissance and modern literature; his exceptional elegies for dead friends; his burlesques and richly atmospheric fiction and drama. The edition draws on rich contemporary sources, manuscripts, and the diverse print culture of Swinburne's day, as well as moving through ancient and modern languages that Swinburne wrote with fluency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExplanatory notes and commentary are included to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life of Swinburne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancis O'Gorman, \u003cem\u003eProfessor in the School of English, University of Edinburgh\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancis 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 \u003cem\u003eSylvia's Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford World's Classics, 2014), and Trollope's \u003cem\u003eThe Way We Live Now\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford World's Classics, 2016). He edited \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP, 2015) and, most recently, volume 5 of \u003cem\u003eEdward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2017). His \u003cem\u003eWorrying: A Cultural and Literary History\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2015) was a \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e '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.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 736\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52040569028909,"sku":"9780198858775","price":44.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/d0ZPRk5INDZmd29TSTh6RUdOOGdodz09.webp?v=1777985427","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/algernon-charles-swinburne-selected-writings-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}