A channel passage and other poems

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Genres: Poetry

234 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 1904

About the author

In musical, often erotic verse, British poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote and attacked the conventions of Victorian morality.

This controversial Englishman in his own day invented the roundel form and some novels and contributed to the famous eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerno...

Reviews

[Richard Thompson · Rating 3 out of 5]

In his day Swinburne was considered innovative and transgressive, but it's pretty tame stuff today. This book has a lot of political, patriotic and tribute poems. Yawn. I was hoping to find some of the ones that shocked Swinburne's contemporaries, like Anactoria, Delores or Hymn to Proserpine, but no luck. None of those are included here. There are also a few poems here on conventional poetic subjects, such as spring, nature and the sea, but they are treated conventionally, so not particularly interesting. They say that his rhyme schemes and poetic structures were original, but I didn't dig that deep because it was too flowery for my taste, too much of a slog, so I didn't think that there would enough payoff for me to make it worth my while to engage in careful poetic analysis. I'm sure that there must be things to like in Swinburne's poetry, but I was not finding them.