Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon: &, Atalanta in Calydon by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Kenneth Haynes ISBN: 0-14-042250-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: poems & Ballads and more!
Comment: Thhis is the best book of Pre-Raph poetry, art and history that I have ever seen/read. I cannot believe that only 2 people have read and writtewn reviews about it. I am an artist, and the artwork, etc. in this text (art school textbook for me) is extremely emotive and inspirational!
It is expensive, but it is worth every red cent to an art and poetry lover!!! Give it a chance.
Rating: 3
Summary: THE MESSY GLORY OF SWINBURNE'S POETRY
Comment: If you are like the mass of humanity you probably don't know Algernon Swinburne or his poems. It is a shame that so few do. If you'll forgive my presumptuousness, please let me tell you why you should take the time to meet the man and his poems.
First, you should meet him because he is messy.
If you have ever read Keats (lamentably few of you have probably even done this--much less reading Swinburne) then you will know the glory of the perfectly visual, perfectly written poem.
Swinburne, for all of the beauty in his words, has none of this in his writing. If the poetry of Keats is a stunningly well tended garden then the poetry of Swinburne is a lush overgrown field of wildflowers.
Second, you should meet Swinburne because he is exhilarating.
Few poets have the courage or the skill to layer line after unforgettable line like Swinburne. The very first poem in this book: A Ballad of Life, will demonstrate what I mean.
Third, you should meet Swinburne because of the very fact that he is too little read.
He is considered to be one of the group called Pre-Raphaelite poets (his book Poems and Ballads is dedicated to his friend and Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones).
This group as a whole gets criminally overlooked. After reading works by Pre-Raphaelites like Swinburne, William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti I must say that I believe they stack up very well against their predecessors (the Romantics) and (in my opinion) eclipse successors like Yeats.
So, if you are looking for something to expand your literary horizons, or would just like something truly powerful and lovely to read, give this book by Swinburne a try.
I give it my recommendation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Poetry Worth Reading
Comment: The early Swinburne (1860's-1880) is a very exciting poet and critic, and he has been one of my favorites for many years now. He is said to be a young man's poet, which, if certain themes in his "Poems and Ballads" be taken on a superficial level, he may well appear to be. Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads," like every book ever written,is an acknowledged classic, a masterpiece, and all of that sort of meaningless critical verbiage-- but "Poems and Ballads" really is a masterpiece in every sense of that fairly undefinable category.
If there any aspiring poets among you who are unaquainted with Swinburne, I suggest that you become acquainted with him at once-- you will almost certainly learn something from him on how powerful a well constructed, but seemingly artless poem can be. He is an absolute master of nearly every poetic form and poetic rhythm, and one of those uncommon writers of such facility that they seem to speak for you, or rather-- Swinburne manages to put into glittering poetic phrasing, thoughts and sentiments that every person feels, but only a few writers, such as Shakespeare or Dostoevsky, can both cogently and beautifully articulate. Naturally, such writers are the envy of everyone, but reading such poems of Swinburne's as "Hymn to Proserpine," "The Leper," or "A Ballad of Life," is as genuinely pleasurable as reading can possibly be.
For those of you who do not know Swinburne, I envy you your potential new discovery-- its not every day (given the popular availability of Baudelaire, Donne, et. al.) that one can turn up a writer of such calibur from nearly a century ago-- and who, until very recently, was practically forgotten. So many great poets and writers are only able to be read by English speakers in translation- we are nevertheless fortunate in our wealth of great English writers like Shakespeare, Marvell, even Emily Bronte. Swinburne is one of those writers by whom we English speakers should count ourselves fortunate to be able to read in the original language, and should avail ourselves in doing so.
 |
Title: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Christina Rossetti, R. W. Grump, Betty S. Flowers, R. W. Crump ISBN: 0140423664 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
 |
Title: Tennyson: A Selected Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscripts by Christopher Ricks, Alfred Tennyson ISBN: 0520066669 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
 |
Title: The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning, Thomas J. Collins, Richard D. Altick ISBN: 1551113724 Publisher: Broadview Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
 |
Title: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by Walter Pater, Adam Phillips ISBN: 019283553X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
 |
Title: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Gerard De Nerval, Richard Sieburth, Gerard De Nerval ISBN: 014044601X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
