1883 A Century of Roundels & Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swineburne First American Edition Antique Hardcover Poetry Lending Library Book

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1883 A Century of Roundels & Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swineburne First American Edition Antique Hardcover Poetry Lending Library Book

<Condition is Good as Pictured> (former lending library copy with all the usual stamps/cards/plates etc with normal wear with markings, visible edge-wear, bumped/rubbed corners, age appropriate toning to interior pages) size is approximately 7.75” x 5.25”

—Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He wrote many plays - all tragedies - and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death.

Swinburne devised the poetic form called the roundel, a variation of the French Rondeau, and examples of this form were included in A Century of Roundels dedicated to Christina Rossetti. Swinburne wrote to Edward Burne-Jones in 1883: "I have got a tiny new book of songs or songlets, in one form and all manner of metres ... just coming out, of which Miss Rossetti has accepted the dedication.

This delightful Antique Poetry book contains sixty or so poems in the innovative roundel poetic form that Swinburne created. The author dedicated this particular work to Christina Rossetti, who later wrote a number of poems in this poetic form herself. I include a list below… Contents:
-In Harbour
-The Way of the Wind
-Had I Wist
-Recollections
-Time and Life
-A Dialogue
-Plus Ultra
-A Dead Friend
-Past Days
-Autumn and Winter
-The Death of Richard Wagner
-Two preludes
-Lohengrin
-Tristan und Isolde
-The Lute and the Lyre
-Plus Intra
-Change
-A Baby's Death
-One of Twain
-Death and Birth
-Birth and Death
-Benediction
-Etude Realiste
-Babyhood
-First Footsteps
-A Ninth Birthday
-Not a Child
-To Dora Dorian
-The Roundel
-At Sea
-Wasted Love
-Before Sunset
-A Singing Lesson
-Flower-pieces
-Love Lies Bleeding
-Love in a Mist
-Three faces
-Ventimiglia
-Genoa
-Venice
-Eros
-Sorrow
-Sleep
-On an Old Roundel
-A Landscape by Courbet
-A Flower-piece by Fantin
-A Night-piece by Millet
-Marzo Pazzo
-Dead Love
-Discord
-Concord
-Mourning
-Aperotos Eros
-To Catullus
-Insularum Ocelle'
-In Sark
-In Guernsey
-Envoi



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