Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.” The poems have been carefully selected and annotated, and the volume is supplied with a prefatory note and an introduction, the latter briefly sketching Swinburne’s life.
Dial. 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 50w.
“Is worth having, for it contains some of the finest poems of the century and is mercifully free from some of the more luxuriant passages of the great poet.”
+ World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 60w.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Selected lyrical poems. $1.50. Harper.
Swinburne’s first published volume, Poems and ballads, is included in this edition together with many later poems that are best representative of the poet’s genius.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Tragedies. Collected lib. ed. 5 v. *$10. Harper.
A five volume edition of Swinburne’s “Tragedies” which with the six-volume edition of his “Poems” makes available in collected form the “entire poetical product of the greatest of living poets.” (Dial.) Volume 1 contains “The Queen mother” and “Rosamund;” Volume 2 contains “Chastelard,” and the first two acts of “Bothwell,” the remaining three acts of which constitute Volume 3; Volume 4 includes the drama “Mary Stuart” and essays on her life and character; and Volume 5 contains “Locrine,” “The sisters,” “Marino Faliero,” and “Rosamund, queen of the Lombards.”