Excerpt from Swinburne: A Critical Study Poems and Ballads shocked and intoxicated a public as wide as any which an English poet has startled or delighted without being something more, that is something less, than a poet. The error was thus quite natural, but Swinburne, far from being the herald of a new age of poetry, was of all his group the most firmly bound by sympathy to the past. As an artist he was working and was to work under no modern influences but those of Hugo, of Gautier, of Baudelaire, and of his ...
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Excerpt from Swinburne: A Critical Study Poems and Ballads shocked and intoxicated a public as wide as any which an English poet has startled or delighted without being something more, that is something less, than a poet. The error was thus quite natural, but Swinburne, far from being the herald of a new age of poetry, was of all his group the most firmly bound by sympathy to the past. As an artist he was working and was to work under no modern influences but those of Hugo, of Gautier, of Baudelaire, and of his elders in the pre-raphaelite group no writer, English or French, born after 1840 was to influence him at all, or even seriously to interest him otherwise than through Occasional appeal to the old enthusiasms. As a revolutionary he seemed to the young men of the 'sixties and early 'seventies the prophet of a revolt that would sweep away the Old world to create a new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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