Poems and Ballads

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Poems and Ballads is a controversial and influential 1866 poetry collection by Algernon Charles Swinburne, noted for its sensual themes, musical language, and challenge to Victorian moral conventions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Algernon Charles Swinburne NERFINISHED
controversy accusations of immorality
attacks in the Victorian press
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
followedBy Poems and Ballads, Second Series NERFINISHED
genre decadent literature
erotic poetry
lyric poetry
hasInfluenceOn modernist poetry criticism
hasPart A Cameo NERFINISHED
A Leave-Taking NERFINISHED
A Match NERFINISHED
Anactoria NERFINISHED
Dolores NERFINISHED
Faustine NERFINISHED
Hymn to Proserpine NERFINISHED
Itylus NERFINISHED
Laus Veneris NERFINISHED
Rococo NERFINISHED
The Garden of Proserpine NERFINISHED
The Leper NERFINISHED
The Triumph of Time NERFINISHED
inCollectionSeries Poems and Ballads series NERFINISHED
influenced Aestheticism NERFINISHED
decadent movement NERFINISHED
fin de siècle literature
language English
literaryMovement Victorian poetry NERFINISHED
notableFor challenge to Victorian moral conventions
controversial reception
musical language
sensual themes
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationYear 1866
publisher Moxon and Co. NERFINISHED
style complex metrical patterns
highly allusive
musical prosody
theme anti-clericalism
blasphemy
death
despair
eroticism
love
paganism
sadomasochism

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Algernon Charles Swinburne notableWork Poems and Ballads