The Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Hardcover)

This three volume edition adds approximately 600 new letters by this notorious poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition in 1959-1960. These new volumes include a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne. edition includes an appendix updating Lang's earlier work, identifying where holographs then missing are now housed and identifying correspondents then unknown. contemporaries in every way, from the explicit sexuality of his early poetry to his political radicalism and his enthusiasms for such then uncanonical writers as Blake, Shelley and the Elizabethan dramatists surrounding Shakespeare. This collection provides new details of virtually all his literary undertakings as well as providing further biographical information. transparent code that intensifies the curiously erotic, even flagellatory relationship that appears to have existed between the two.