In the Hothouse
Peter Howarth: Swinburne, 8 November 2018
21st-Century Oxford Authors: Algernon Charles Swinburne
edited by Francis O’Gorman.
Oxford, 722 pp., £95, December 2016,978 0 19 967224 0 Show More
edited by Francis O’Gorman.
Oxford, 722 pp., £95, December 2016,
“... the growing thunder yearns/With hot swift pulses all the silence burns.’ In the last poem in Francis O’Gorman’s Oxford edition, ‘The Transvaal’ (1899), republican freedom is still under attack and Swinburne is still fuming: ‘Patience, long sick to death, is dead,’ it begins. ‘Too long/Have sloth and doubt and treason bidden us be/What ... ”