Poems and Ballads
{{Short description|Collection of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne}}
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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.{{Citation |last=Walsh |first=John |year=2012| title=An Introduction to Algernon Charles Swinburne |publisher=The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project |publication-place=Bloomington |url= http://swinburnearchive.indiana.edu/swinburne/view#docId=swinburne/acs0000503-01.xml;outputAsDiv=true;anchor=df012d |access-date=5 December 2015 }}
Poems
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- 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{{citation|title=Poems and Ballads|first=Algernon Charles|last=Swinburne|year=1866 |pages=viii-viii|url=https://archive.org/stream/poemsballads00swinrich#page/n16/mode/1up}}
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Influences
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- Swinburne dedicated Poems and Ballads to fellow Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones.{{citation|title=Poems and Ballads|first=Algernon Charles|last=Swinburne|year=1866 |pages=v|url=https://archive.org/stream/poemsballads00swinrich#page/n14/mode/1up}} Burne-Jones' painting Laus Veneris, first exhibited in 1878, shared the story of Tannhäuser as its inspiration with Swinburne's poem of the same name.{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/swinburne/hikim8.html|title=Laus Veneris: The Poem and the Painting|website=Victorian Web|last=Kim|first=Hae-In}}
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- The Borghese Hermaphroditus at the Louvre inspired Swinburne's poem "Hermaphroditus", subscribed "Au Musée du Louvre, Mars 1863".{{citation|chapter=Hermaphroditus|title=Poems and Ballads|first=Algernon Charles|last=Swinburne|chapter-url=http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/swinburne/view#docId=swinburne/acs0000001-01-i013.xml;query=;brand=swinburne}}
- The Isle of Wight, to the south of the British coast, was Swinburne's home throughout his childhood and later life; his love for the sea appears often in his poetry, where it is a metaphor for time, as in "Love at Sea", written in imitation of Théophile Gautier,{{citation|chapter=Love at Sea|title=Poems and Ballads|first=Algernon Charles|last=Swinburne|chapter-url=http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/swinburne/view#docId=swinburne/acs0000001-01-i040.xml;query=;brand=swinburne}} and "The Triumph of Time".
- The first documented use of the word "lesbianism" to refer to female homosexuality is in 1870,Zimmerman, pp. 776–777. four years after Swinburne published this book, which includes the poem "Sapphics", where he refers to Sappho of Lesbos and her lover Anactoria as "Lesbians". Although use of the term lesbian in this way was present as early as 1732,Rictor Norton (Ed.), "The Toast, 1732," Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. 4 June 2004
Second and Third Series
In 1878, Swinburne published a collection of poems titled Poems and Ballads, Second Series, which is less political, and also shows the influence of French literature. It includes verses to Baudelaire, Gautier, Villon, Hugo, and Théodore de Banville. It also contains his translations of Villon.Gosse, Edmund. The Life of Swinburne. Cambridge Univ. Press. (2011). {{ISBN|9781108034142}} pp. 32-34Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. London: Chatto & Windus (1878).
In 1889, Swinburne published a collection of poems titled Poems and Ballads, Third Series, which contains "To a Seamew", "Pan and Thalassius", "Neap-Tide", elegies for Sir Henry Taylor and John William Inchbold, and border ballads, that were written for an unfinished novel, Lesbia Brandon.Swinburne, Algernon Charles. "The Commonweal". The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Chatto & Windus (1889)Gosse, Edmund. The Life of Swinburne. Cambridge Univ. Press. (2011). {{ISBN|9781108034142}} pp. 32-34
References
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External links
- [https://archive.org/stream/poemsballads00swinrich#page/n11/mode/2up Poems and Ballads] at Internet Archive
- {{librivox book | title= Poems and Ballads | author= Algernon Charles Swinburne}}
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Category:LGBTQ literature in the United Kingdom