A. C. Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A. C. Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti R. Swinburne is pre-eminently what used to be called 4 - S R - Apoet's poet - that is, he chiefly appeals to our aesthetic em ons rather than to our intellectual or moral instincts ough he by no means leaves those unsatisfied, and it is on e marked verbal beauty of his verse which has obscured f me critics the firm organic structure of thought and crit ism of life beneath his greatest work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.