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Swinburne on “The Music of Poetry”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
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More than any other critic of his day, Algernon Charles Swinburne judged poetry by its music, but, because Swinburne is so often ignored as a critic, much of what he had to say on this most elusive subject remains buried in his involved critical prose. Yet, what Swinburne had to say about the music of poetry is often instructive, for one so renowned for musical effects in his own poetry demands our attention when he discusses this subject.
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1 The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, ed. Edmund Gosse, C. B. and Thomas J. Wise (London, 1925–27), xv, 376. All my citations of Swinburne are from this edition and will hereafter be referred to by volume and page.
2 XVI. 179; cf. p. 164.
3 XIII, 29; cf. pp. 349, 120.
4 XVI, 61; cf. pp. 178–179.
6 xv, 145; cf. p. 12.
6 xv, 7; cf. XVI, 395.
7 The remark was made in 1869 in his prefatory essay on Coleridge.