Swinburne’s 1866 collection shocked reviewers with its pagan sensuality and its music. Here are A Ballad of Life and A Ballad of Death, Laus Veneris on Tannhäuser in the Venusberg, Phædra, The Triumph of Time, Les Noyades, Dolores, Faustine and The Garden of Proserpine, with dedications to Burne-Jones and Watts-Dunton.
The most notorious book of Victorian verse, and some of the most musical poetry in the language. Download the free EPUB.