At the court of Holyrood, the young French poet Chastelard, who followed Mary Stuart from France, is consumed by love for the queen. Among her four Maries, Darnley, Murray and the stern Scottish preachers, his reckless devotion becomes a danger to them both, and Swinburne makes Mary a beautiful, careless and destructive figure.
The first of Swinburne’s trilogy on Mary Queen of Scots, full of his lush early verse. Download the free EPUB.