Poems and Ballads

Name: Poems and Ballads
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Collection of sensual and defiant poems celebrating desire

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

English Victorian poet whose Poems and Ballads shocked Victorian society with its pagan eroticism and masochistic themes. His technical virtuosity in meter and rhyme was unmatched by any contemporary.

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