Bøker av Algernon Charles Swinburne

Our Lady of Pain is the first selection of Swinburne's poetry to focus precisely on what his early readers found most objectionable: erotic passion, in both its 'normal' and 'perverse' varieties. Swinburne's treatment of physical passion, and the varieties of passion about which he chose to write, retain the power to shock.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1903 to 1909. His tragedies include The Queen Mother, Rosamond, Chastelard, Bothwell, Mary Stuart, Locrine, The Sisters, and Marino Faliero.