Algernon C. Swinburn - Selected Poems

Pros: Some of the most beautiful poems ever written in any language.

Cons: Like many rivers, Swinburne sometimes takes a long time to wind his way to sea.

Review: Some artists are best compared to birds: they create their art instinctively, almost - or even entirely - without conscious will and intellectual effort. In music, Mozart is probably the most prominent of these avian analogs; in poetry, Swinburne...