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В настоящее издание вошли избранные произведения классика английской поэзии Алджернона Чарлза Суинберна. Тексты представлены на английском и русском языках, а переводы выполнены такими мэтрами как М.Донской, Б.Пастернак, В.Рогов, С.Степанов и др. Издание приурочено к 175-летию со дня рождения Поэта.

A tragic drama in verse of Mary Stuart and the French poet

1THE SEABOARDThe sea is at ebb, and the sound of her utmost word Is soft as the least wave's lapse in a still small reach. From bay into bay, on quest of a goal deferred, From headland ever to headland and breach tobreachWhere earth gives ear to the message that all days preachWith changes of gladness and sadness that cheer and chide,The lone way lures me along by a chance untried That haply, if hope dissolve not and faith be whole, Not all for nought shall I seek, with a dream for guide,The goal that is not, and ever again the goal.The trackless ways are untravelled of sail or bird ; The hoar wave hardly recedes from the soundless beach.The silence of instant noon goes nigh to be heard, The viewless void to be visible : all and each, A closure of calm no clamour of storm can breach Concludes and confines and absorbs them on either side,All forces of light and of life and the live world's pride.Table of Contents CONTENTS; A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY; and other poems; PAGE; A Midsummer Holiday :-; I The Seaboard 5; II A Haven 7; III On a Country Road 9; IV The Mill Garden 11; V A Sea-Mark 14; VI The Cliffside Path 16; VII In the Water 18; VIII The Sunbows 21; IX On the Verge 23; A New-Year Ode 27; Lines on the Monument of Giuseppe Mazzini 45; Les Casquets 47; A Ballad of Sark 55; Nine Years Old 57; After a Reading61; Maytime in Midwinter 64; A Double Ballad of August 67; Heartsease Country 69; A Ballad of Appeal 71; Cradle Songs a?? a?? a?? 73; Pelagius a??a?? 77; Louis Blanc 79; vi CONTENTS; PAGE; Vos Deos Laudamus Si; On the Bicentenary of Corneille 83; In Sepulcretis 85; Love and Scorn 88; On the Death of Richard Doyle 90; In Memory of Henry A Bright 91; A Solitude 92; Victor Hugo : L'Archipel de la Manche 93; The Twilight of the Lords 94; Clear the Way ! a?? ' 97; A Word for the Country 99; A Word

1875. A collection of verse by the poet Swinburne who is one of the very few, since the days of Raleigh and Sidney, to come from the aristocracy. He was also well-known for his sexual proclivities and debauched lifestyle. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Locrine - A Tragedy - By A. Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day. He is considered a decadent poet. Many of his early and still admired poems evoke the Victorian fascination with the Middle Ages, and some of them are explicitly medieval in style, tone and construction, including The Leper, Laus Veneris, and St Dorothy. His mastery of vocabulary, rhyme and metre arguably put him among the most talented English language poets in history, although he has also been criticized for his florid style and word choices that only fit the rhyme scheme rather than contributing to the meaning of the piece. After the first Poems and Ballads, Swinburne's later poetry was devoted more to philosophy and politics. He did not stop writing love poetry entirely, but the content was less shocking. Amongst his other works are: A Century of Roundels (1883) and The Age of Shakespeare (1908).

Swinburne . . . was one of those not very numerous poets whom their contemporaries have treated with justice. The different attention which he received at different periods very fairly corresponded to differences, at those periods, in the quality of his writing. He was neither steadily overrated, like Bighorn, nor steadily underrated, like Shelley, nor, like Wordsworth, derided while he wrote well and celebrated when he wrote well no longer: he received the day's wages for the day's work. His first book fell dead, as it deserved; his first good book, "Atalanta in Calydon," earned him celebrity; his best book, "Poems and Ballads," was his most famous and influential book; and the decline of his powers, slow in "Songs before Sunrise" and "Both Well" and "Retches," accelerated in his later writings, was followed, not immediately, but after an interval sufficient to give him the chance of recovery, by a corresponding decline. . . .
-- A.E. Houston

Republican, pagan, a sensualist alive to pleasure and to pain, Swinburne flouted the rules of Victorian decorum and morality in his life and work He created a unique means of expression through what Tennyson called his 'wonderful rhythmic invention', and yet his verse was influenced by poets from numerous periods and countries. Many of his poems are opulent hymns to sensual love, in all its aspects, and to death and to the loss of love. Swinburne's verse is immensely diverse in form: together these two works demonstrate its rich complexity and variety. As T. S. Eliot remarked, there is no reason to call his power over words anything but…