A YEAR'S LETTERS

SWINBURNE , ALGERNON CHARLES , SYPHER , Francis Jacques , ed.

ISBN 10: 0720602548 / ISBN 13: 9780720602548

Published by PETER OWEN Ltd, London, 1976

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VG H/b in Good D/j.1st ed.thus.1st British Commonwealth Edition. A Pungent Satire on British Morality" at the turn of the Century [1900's]. The Author is the Poet AC Swinburne; Victorian Poet 1837-1909 : .edited by FJ Sypher. illus. 5 b/w plates Intro; To the author, A Year's letters , Text notes & Explanatory.195pp.[ blue cloth+ gilt-line design, no inscsp. busy blue.decorative end papers."The Swinburne Library" stamp to last blank page fep] Dust Jacket not price clipped , slightly grubby to once white rear, med edgewear colour fade/rub/loss but no tears. Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A YEAR'S LETTERS
• Publisher: PETER OWEN Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0720602548
• ISBN 13: 9780720602548
• Binding: Hard Back
• Edition: 1st Edition Thus
• Condition: VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
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Synopsis

Hardcover with gilt-printed boards, no dust jacket. Light wear to front board at leading edge, otherwise no notable flaws. AD

About the Author

Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne was born April 5, 1837 in Grosvenor Place, London, but spent most of his boyhood on the Isle of Wight, where both his parents and grandparents had homes. He was educated at Eton and Oxford University but was expelled from Oxford before he graduated. Although some of his work had already appeared in periodicals, Atalanta in Calydon was the first poem to come out under his name and was received enthusiastically. "Laus Veneris" and Poems and Ballads, with their sexually charged passages, were attacked all the more violently as a result. Swinburne's meeting in 1867 with his long-time hero Mazzini, led to the more political Songs before Sunrise. In 1879, with Swinburne nearly dead from alcoholism and dissolution, his legal advisor Theodore Watts-Dunton took him in, and was successful in getting him to adopt a healthier style of life. Swinburne lived the rest of his days at Watts-Dunton's house outside London. He saw less and less of his old friends, but his growing deafness accounts for some of his decreased sociability. He died of influenza in 1909.