Poems and Ballads

Time and Tide, Alfred Thompson Bricher, c.1873
The sea and time are common motifs in Swinburne's poetry.

Poems and Ballads, First Series is the first collection of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in 1866. The book was instantly popular, and equally controversial. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. The poems have many common elements, such as the Ocean, Time, and Death. Several historical persons are mentioned in the poems, such as Sappho, Anactoria, Jesus (Galilaee, La. "Galilean") and Catullus.[1]

Poems

  • A Ballad of Life
  • A Ballad of Death
  • Laus Veneris
  • Phædra
  • The Triumph of Time
  • Les Noyades
  • A Leave-Taking
  • Itylus
  • Anactoria
  • Hymn to Proserpine
  • Ilicet
  • Hermaphroditus
  • Fragoletta
  • Rondel
  • Satia te Sanguine
  • A Litany
  • A Lamentation
  • Anima Anceps
  • In the Orchard
  • A Match
  • Faustine
  • A Cameo
  • Song before Death
  • Rococo
  • Stage Love
  • The Leper
  • A Ballad of Burdens
  • Rondel
  • Before the Mirror
  • Erotion
  • In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
  • A Song in Time of Order. 1852
  • A Song in Time of Revolution. 1860
  • To Victor Hugo
  • Before Dawn
  • Dolores
  • The Garden of Proserpine
  • Hesperia
  • Love at Sea
  • April
  • Before Parting
  • The Sundew
  • Félise
  • An Interlude
  • Hendecasyllabics
  • Sapphics
  • At Eleusis
  • August
  • A Christmas Carol
  • The Masque of Queen Bersabe
  • St. Dorothy
  • The Two Dreams
  • Aholibah
  • Love and Sleep
  • Madonna Mia
  • The King's Daughter
  • After Death
  • May Janet
  • The Bloody Son
  • The Sea-Swallows
  • The Year of Love
  • Dedication[2]

Influences

Laus Veneris, c.1875, by Edward Burne-Jones
Sleeping Hermaphroditus, Louvre, Paris

See also

References

Wikisource has original text related to this article:
  1. Walsh, John (2012), An Introduction to Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bloomington: The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project, retrieved 5 December 2015
  2. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Poems and Ballads, pp. viii–viii
  3. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Poems and Ballads, pp. v
  4. Kim, Hae-In. "Laus Veneris: The Poem and the Painting". Victorian Web.
  5. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, "Hermaphroditus", Poems and Ballads
  6. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, "Love at Sea", Poems and Ballads
  7. Zimmerman, pp. 776–777.
  8. Rictor Norton (Ed.), "The Toast, 1732," Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. 4 June 2004 <http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/toast.htm>.


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