1884 Rare Victorian Book - The Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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Author: Swinburne, Algernon Charles.
Title: SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF A.C. SWINBURNE, From the Latest English Edition of His Works.
Language: Text in English.
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1884.
Size: 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: xxii-634 pages.
Binding: Very good original Victorian full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover. All edges gilt.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, name of a previous owner on the 2nd blank page - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the nice frontispiece portrait of Swinburne.
The book: A beautiful Victorian edition of the POETICAL WORKS OF A.C. SWINBURNE.
The author: Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death. Several historical people are featured in his poems, such as Sappho ("Sapphics"), Anactoria ("Anactoria"), and Catullus ("To Catullus").