Project Gutenberg 2011-02-26 Public domain in the USA. 653 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 1837 1909 Maitland, Thomas Maitland, A. C. (Algernon Charles) Swinburne, Algernon C. 20010153 Poems & Ballads (First Series) Poems and Ballads (First Series) Produced by Paul Murray, Chandra Friend and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Poems & Ballads (First Series)" by Algernon Charles Swinburne is a collection of poetry written in the late 19th century. This work showcases Swinburne’s preoccupation with themes of passion, mortality, and beauty, often reflected through musicality and intense emotion in his verse. The collection includes various forms of poetry, featuring original reflections and dramatic elements that explore the complex relationships between love, life, and death. The opening of the collection presents a dedicatory epistle, where Swinburne expresses his thoughts on the nature of commentary regarding one’s own work. He reflects on the criticisms he faced early in his career and the dualities of fact and imagination present in his poetry. Following this, he muses on the essence of his work over time, indicating a commitment to expressing genuine emotion and aiming for lyrical beauty. The poems that follow delve into themes of life and death, romantic longing, and the grandeur of human experience, setting the tone for the intricate explorations that characterize the entire collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 74.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Ballads, English English poetry PR Text Banned Books from Anne Haight's list Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry Category: Poetry Category: British Literature 618745 2025-06-14T11:56:09.963768 text/html 630566 2011-02-26T14:50:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 158635 2011-02-26T14:50:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 257211 2025-06-14T11:56:34.248097 application/epub+zip 260780 2025-06-14T11:56:17.692198 application/epub+zip 229740 2025-06-14T11:56:14.274216 application/epub+zip 590699 2025-06-14T11:56:42.085059 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 985982 2025-06-14T11:56:30.131150 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 941729 2022-09-16T08:41:24.957720 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 383484 2025-06-14T11:56:06.934756 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 383328 2011-02-26T14:50:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 142669 2011-02-26T14:50:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 383338 2011-02-26T14:50:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 142517 2011-02-26T14:50:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20894 2025-06-14T11:56:42.329052 application/rdf+xml 16647 2025-06-14T11:56:14.997213 image/jpeg 4045 2025-06-14T11:56:14.635199 image/jpeg 249181 2025-06-14T11:56:10.005738 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia