Locrine: A Tragedy
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Description
Algernon Charles Swinburne published this tragedy with Chatto and Windus in 1887. Spottiswoode printed the London edition at New Square. Swinburne reserves the right of translation on the title page. He dedicates the play to Alice Swinburne in verse.
The dedication argues no words can utter deep love. Love stands clearer than the unsounded sea, he writes. Time and death are less than love, the poem insists. His Locrine retells the same British legend in passionate verse. False, the dedication cries, when man deems life more than breath. Sovereign song cannot lift such love homeward, Swinburne argues.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 102 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |