Project Gutenberg 2011-02-26 Public domain in the USA. 324 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 1837 1909 Maitland, Thomas Maitland, A. C. (Algernon Charles) 20010153 Poems & Ballads (First Series) Poems and Ballads (First Series) Produced by Paul Murray, Chandra Friend and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Poems & Ballads (First Series)" by Algernon Charles Swinburne is a collection of poetry written in the late 19th century. This work showcases Swinburne’s preoccupation with themes of passion, mortality, and beauty, often reflected through musicality and intense emotion in his verse. The collection includes various forms of poetry, featuring original reflections and dramatic elements that explore the complex relationships between love, life, and death. The opening of the collection presents a dedicatory epistle, where Swinburne expresses his thoughts on the nature of commentary regarding one’s own work. He reflects on the criticisms he faced early in his career and the dualities of fact and imagination present in his poetry. Following this, he muses on the essence of his work over time, indicating a commitment to expressing genuine emotion and aiming for lyrical beauty. The poems that follow delve into themes of life and death, romantic longing, and the grandeur of human experience, setting the tone for the intricate explorations that characterize the entire collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Ballads, English English poetry PR Text Banned Books from Anne Haight's list Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 618614 618623 2024-09-15T05:16:48.191948 2023-09-15T10:56:19.566429 text/html text/html 630566 2011-02-26T14:50:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 158635 2011-02-26T14:50:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 230833 2024-09-15T05:17:09.006838 application/epub+zip 234639 2024-09-15T05:16:53.300886 application/epub+zip 234639 2024-09-15T05:16:50.543914 application/epub+zip 548593 2024-09-15T05:17:16.442778 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 943837 2024-09-15T05:17:05.344822 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 941729 2022-09-16T08:41:24.957720 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 383484 383385 2024-09-15T05:16:44.482079 2023-09-15T10:56:15.930411 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 383328 2011-02-26T14:50:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 142669 2011-02-26T14:50:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 383338 2011-02-26T14:50:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 142517 2011-02-26T14:50:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20654 2024-09-15T05:17:16.626773 application/rdf+xml 16774 2024-09-15T05:16:51.020921 image/jpeg 4041 2024-09-15T05:16:50.781920 image/jpeg 223979 2024-09-15T05:16:48.235913 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia