In the canon
Atalanta in Calydon
Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Form
- Form Verse Drama
- Year
- Year 1865
- Pages
- Pages 120
When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces: the opening chorus breaks over the reader like weather, all headlong anapaests and hammered alliteration, and people have been reciting it aloud ever since. What follows is a Greek tragedy written in English by a man of twenty-eight, drunk on Aeschylus and on his own ear.
When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
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