Algernon Charles Swinburne (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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The most learned and versatile of all the Victorian poets, Algernon Charles Swinburne tried his hand with varying degrees of success at virtually every literary form available to him. He sought to make his mark as a dramatist and novelist as well as a poet, and in the course of his career he published twelve complete plays excluding juvenilia and fragments. They are all tragedies written predominantly in blank verse. Atalanta in Calydon (1865) and Erechtheus (1876) are based on the Greek model. Chastelard (1865), Bothwell (1874),...
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