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    The Sisters: "There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep."
    The Sisters: "There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep."
    The Sisters: "There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep."
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    The Sisters: "There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep."

    By Algernon Charles Swinburne

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    Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on April 5th, 1837, in London, into a wealthy Northumbrian family. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, but did not complete a degree. In 1860 Swinburne published two verse dramas but achieved his first literary success in 1865 with Atalanta in Calydon, written in the form of classical Greek tragedy. The following year "Poems and Ballads" brought him instant notoriety. He was now identified with "indecent" themes and the precept of art for art's sake. Although he produced much after this success in general his popularity and critical reputation declined. The most important qualities of Swinburne's work are an intense lyricism, his intricately extended and evocative imagery, metrical virtuosity, rich use of assonance and alliteration, and bold, complex rhythms. Swinburne's physical appearance was small, frail, and plagued by several other oddities of physique and temperament. Throughout the 1860s and 1870s he drank excessively and was prone to accidents that often left him bruised, bloody, or unconscious. Until his forties he suffered intermittent physical collapses that necessitated removal to his parents' home while he recovered. Throughout his career Swinburne also published literary criticism of great worth. His deep knowledge of world literatures contributed to a critical style rich in quotation, allusion, and comparison. He is particularly noted for discerning studies of Elizabethan dramatists and of many English and French poets and novelists. As well he was a noted essayist and wrote two novels. In 1879, Swinburne's friend and literary agent, Theodore Watts-Dunton, intervened during a time when Swinburne was dangerously ill. Watts-Dunton isolated Swinburne at a suburban home in Putney and gradually weaned him from alcohol, former companions and many other habits as well. Much of his poetry in this period may be inferior but some individual poems are exceptional; "By the North Sea," "Evening on the Broads," "A Nympholept," "The Lake of Gaube," and "Neap-Tide." Swinburne lived another thirty years with Watts-Dunton. He denied Swinburne's friends access to him, controlled the poet's money, and restricted his activities. It is often quoted that 'he saved the man but killed the poet'. Algernon Charles Swinburne died on April 10th, 1909 at the age of seventy-two.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publishing
    Release dateMar 10, 2017
    ISBN9781787371965
    The Sisters: "There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep."

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      The Sisters - Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Sisters by Algernon Charles Swinburne

      A TRAGEDY

      Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on April 5th, 1837, in London, into a wealthy Northumbrian family.  He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, but did not complete a degree.

      In 1860 Swinburne published two verse dramas but achieved his first literary success in 1865 with Atalanta in Calydon, written in the form of classical Greek tragedy. The following year Poems and Ballads brought him instant notoriety. He was now identified with indecent themes and the precept of art for art's sake.

      Although he produced much after this success in general his popularity and critical reputation declined. The most important qualities of Swinburne's work are an intense lyricism, his intricately extended and evocative imagery, metrical virtuosity, rich use of assonance and alliteration, and bold, complex rhythms.

      Swinburne's physical appearance was small, frail, and plagued by several other oddities of physique and temperament. Throughout the 1860s and 1870s he drank excessively and was prone to accidents that often left him bruised, bloody, or unconscious. Until his forties he suffered intermittent physical collapses that necessitated removal to his parents' home while he recovered.

      Throughout his career Swinburne also published literary criticism of great worth. His deep knowledge of world literatures contributed to a critical style rich in quotation, allusion, and comparison. He is particularly noted for discerning studies of Elizabethan dramatists and of many English and French poets and novelists. As well he was a noted essayist and wrote two novels.

      In 1879, Swinburne's friend and literary agent, Theodore Watts-Dunton, intervened during a time when Swinburne was dangerously ill. Watts-Dunton isolated Swinburne at a suburban home in Putney and gradually weaned him from alcohol, former companions and many other habits as well.

      Much of his poetry in this period may be inferior but some individual poems are exceptional; By the North Sea, Evening on the Broads, A Nympholept, The Lake of Gaube, and Neap-Tide.

      Swinburne lived another thirty years with Watts-Dunton. He denied Swinburne's friends access to him, controlled the poet's money, and restricted his activities. It is often quoted that 'he saved the man but killed the poet'.

      Swinburne died on April 10th, 1909 at the age of seventy-two.

      Index of Contents

      DEDICATION

      PERSONS REPRESENTED

      SCENE

      TIME

      CHARACTERS IN THE INTERLUDE

      ACT I

      SCENE I. — A Morning Room

      SCENE II. — In the Garden

      ACT II

      SCENE I. — Another Part of the Grounds

      ACT III

      SCENE I — In the Garden

      ACT IV

      SCENE I. — A Stage Representing a Garden by the Sea

      SCENE ll.—The Same

      SCENE III. — The Same

      ACT V

      SCENE I.—An Ante-Chamber to the Drawing-Room

      ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      TO THE LADY MARY GORDON

      THIS PLAY IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY HER AFFECTIONATE NEPHEW

      DEDICATION.

      I.

      Between the sea-cliffs and the sea there sleeps

      A garden walled about with woodland, fair

      As dreams that die or days that memory keeps

      Alive in holier light and lovelier air

      Than clothed them round long since and blessed

      them there

      With less benignant blessing, set less fast

      For seal on spirit and sense, than time has cast

      For all time on the dead and deathless past.

      II.

      Beneath the trellised flowers the flowers that shine

      And lighten all the lustrous length of way

      From terrace up to terrace bear me sign

      And keep me record how no word could say

      What perfect pleasure of how pure a da>'

      A child’s remembrance or a child’s delight

      Drank deep in dreams of, or in present sight

      Exulted as the sunrise in its might.

      III.

      The shadowed lawns, the shadowing pines, the ways

      That wind and wander through a world of dowers,

      The radiant orchard where the glad sun’s gaze

      Dwells, and makes most of all his happiest hours,

      The field that laughs beneath the cliff that towers,

      The splendour of the slumber that enthralls

      With sunbright peace the world within their walls,

      Are symbols yet of years that love recalls.

      IV.

      But scarce the sovereign symbol of the sea,

      That clasps about the loveliest land alive

      With loveliness more wonderful, may be

      Fit sign to show what radiant dreams survive

      Of suns that set not with the years that drive

      Like mists before the blast of dawn, but still

      Through clouds and gusts of change that chafe and chill

      Lift up the light that mocks their wrathful will.

      V.

      A light unshaken of the wind of time

      That laughs upon the thunder and the threat

      Of years that thicken and of clouds that climb

      To put the

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