Poems and Ballads (First Series) - Free Audiobook

Poems and Ballads (First Series) - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Algernon Charles Swinburne,

Language: English

1 / 63DEDICATORY EPISTLE

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63 Chapter(s)
  • 1. DEDICATORY EPISTLE
  • 2. A Ballad of Life
  • 3. A Ballad of Death
  • 4. Laus Veneris
  • 5. Phædra
  • 6. The Triumph of Time
  • 7. Les Noyades
  • 8. A Leave-Taking
  • 9. Itylus
  • 10. Anactoria
  • 11. Hymn to Proserpine
  • 12. Ilicet
  • 13. Hermaphroditus
  • 14. Fragoletta
  • 15. Rondel
  • 16. Satia te Sanguine
  • 17. A Litany
  • 18. A Lamentation
  • 19. Anima Anceps
  • 20. In the Orchard
  • 21. A Match
  • 22. Faustine
  • 23. A Cameo
  • 24. Song before Death
  • 25. Rococo
  • 26. Stage Love
  • 27. The Leper
  • 28. A Ballad of Burdens
  • 29. Rondel
  • 30. Before the Mirror
  • 31. Erotion
  • 32. In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
  • 33. A Song in Time of Order. 1852
  • 34. A Song in Time of Revolution. 1860
  • 35. To Victor Hugo
  • 36. Before Dawn
  • 37. Dolores
  • 38. The Garden of Proserpine
  • 39. Hesperia
  • 40. Love at Sea
  • 41. April
  • 42. Before Parting
  • 43. The Sundew
  • 44. Félise
  • 45. An Interlude
  • 46. Hendecasyllabics
  • 47. Sapphics
  • 48. At Eleusis
  • 49. August
  • 50. A Christmas Carol
  • 51. The Masque of Queen Bersabe
  • 52. St. Dorothy
  • 53. The Two Dreams
  • 54. Aholibah
  • 55. Love and Sleep
  • 56. Madonna Mia
  • 57. The King's Daughter
  • 58. After Death
  • 59. May Janet
  • 60. The Bloody Son
  • 61. The Sea-Swallows
  • 62. The Year of Love
  • 63. Dedication, 1865

About

Swinburne's first collection of poetry, published in 1866, circles around the themes of love, religion (or irreligion) and death. The poems are written in sonorous, formally inventive, and occasionally abstruse verse with many dramatic elements. The risqué subject matter and macabre imagery found in some of the poems aroused considerable controversy at the time, prompting one critic to denounce the author as an "unclean fiery imp from the pit". (Summary by Kazbek)

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