Dolores : a lyric by Swinburne published.
... perfect and highly wrought beauty, a marvellous music. There is often a captivatingly rich and sensuous appeal in his language and not unoften it rises to a splendid magnificence. Atalanta in Calydon, Dolores, Hertha, The Garden of Proserpine and numerous other poems with the same perfect workmanship will always stand among the consummate achievements of English poetry. He is at his best one of the great ...
... disappear. Even as it is, the trochaic metre in the hands of great poets like Milton, Shelley, Keats does not pall—I do not get tired of the melody of the Skylark . Swinburne's anapaestic rhythms, as in Dolores , are kept up for pages without difficulty with the most royal ease, without fatigue either to the writer or the reader. Both trochee and anapaest are surely quite natural to the language. The dactyl ...
... had its effect in the formation of my poetic style and its after-effects in that respect are not absent from Savitri . It is only Swinburne's early lyrical poems that exercised any power upon me, Dolores, Hertha, The Garden of Proserpine and others that rank among his best work,—also Atalanta in Calydon ; his later lyrical poetry I found too empty and his dramatic and narrative verse did not satisfy ...
... had its effect on the formation of my poetic style and its after-effects in that respect are not absent from Savitri. It is only Swinburne's early lyrical poems that exercised any power on me, Dolores, Hertha, The Garden of Proserpine and others that rank among his best work, — also Atalanta in Calydon, his later lyrical poetry I found too empty and his dramatic and narrative verse did not ...
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