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Article: Swinburne.(Guide to the Year's Work)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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In the past year Swinburne's voice has been heard freshly in a new collection of his letters and a new selection of his poetry and prose; at the same time, various critics have explored his exploitation and transformation of earlier works (poems by Villon, Milton, Baudelaire, Tennyson, and Swinburne himself), as well as the ways in which he influenced texts by later writers like H.D. and T. S. Eliot. As students of Swinburne look ahead to his centenary in 2009, it seems that a fresh perception of his place in literary history is in rapid formation.
The appearance of Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne, edited and splendidly annotated by Terry L. ...