In the canon
Poems and Ballads
Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Form
- Form Poetry Collection
- Year
- Year 1866
- Pages
- Pages 260
Read it aloud and it takes over your pulse: anapaests galloping, alliteration stacked until sense nearly drowns in sound. Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote poems that Victorian England could not survive hearing, and his publisher withdrew the book within weeks, panicked by reviewers who treated it less as verse than as a public indecency.
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;
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