English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1330 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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The idea
Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote the verse drama Atalanta in Calydon, on the model of Greek tragedy, and the Pre-Raphaelite Poems and Ballads of eighteen sixty-six. His work caused scandal but had defenders, and it influenced the Aesthetic and Decadent poets of the century's end.
In practice
Musical, daring, scandalous.
Where people slip
He links Pre-Raphaelites to the Decadents.
Your place on the trail
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