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artistic and philosophical references
in the period of new-found freedom after the fall of communism
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In poems that are at once assured and incisive
Our Lady of Pain by Algernon Charles Swinburne Adam ORiordan artistic and philosophical referencesSwinburne's first collection, Poems and Ballads (1866), generated a storm of critical and public controversy, being attacked for licentiousness and anti theism. His publisher withdrew the book within days of publication, and the author was forced to transfer his works to another house. The present selection of Swinburnes verse focuses precisely on what the first reviewers of the 1866 book found most objectionable: erotic passion, in both its normal
