Number of Volumes: 2 First Edition, First Printing, First edition, first and second printing-states with different title page versos. Rare first state: London: Savill and Edwards, Printers, Chandos Street, Covent Garden; and second state: London: Savill, Edwards and Co., Printers, Chandos Street, Covent Garden. Dark burgundy Morocco leather wrapper with gilt lettering on front, heavily worn, portions of spine missing, front upper corner of board torn off. Interior contents are two stitched booklets. First state contains a few loose pages, and owner's edition notation on flyleaf, as well as pasted reference information. Swinburne's text is unmarked. Second state has a horizontal fold along the centerline of the paper, and is more heavily foxed than the first state, also unmarked except erased pencil on title page. Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 ? 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He was a major contributor to the Pre-Raphaelite movement in poetry, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. His greatest works are the verse drama Atalanta in Calydon (1865), written in the form of an Ancient Greek tragedy, and his Pre-Raphaelite Poems and Ballads (1866). In his poetry, Swinburne rebelled against the Christian morality of the Victorian era, drawing from classical, medieval, and Renaissance sources to explore atheism in "Hymn to Proserpine," suicide in "The Triumph of Time," queer desire in "Anactoria," and sadomasochism in "Dolores." While Swinburne's work attracted considerable scandal, it had prominent Victorian defenders, including John Ruskin. References for first and second printing-states: Wise 36, 37. Ashley VI, 64, 68. Tinker 2014, Schwarz 34. Leather softcover, acceptable condition. 23 pages per printing-state, 46 total pages, 12mo.

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Title

Notes on Poems & Reviews

Publisher

John Camden Hotten, London

Publication Date

1866

Language

English

Binding

Softcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fair

Weight

0.25 pounds

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