Swinburne’s Style
An Experiment in Verse History
L. M. Kilbride
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 10 September 2018 • 232pp ISBN: 978-1-781887-91-2 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781887-92-9 (paperback, 7 October 2020) • RRP £10.99, $14.99, €13.49 ISBN: 978-1-781887-93-6 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ModernEnglishPoetrystudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History establishes Swinburne’s significance in the historical development of English poetry from 1865 to the present. Situating Swinburne on the cusp of modernism, it argues that Swinburne had no personal style because he possessed all styles. His mastery of traditional verse forms promoted a level of stylistic self-awareness which the next generation of poets could not sustain. If criticism to date has found Swinburne challenging, this is because his poetry challenges criticism. Rather than making or remaking arguments for or against Swinburne's style, Kilbride begins from a forensic investigation of ‘the period ear’. Close analysis of primary works, manuscripts, reviews, obituaries, letters, manuals of prosody and other documents of Swinburne's own times attempt to reconstruct a context largely lost after the break with traditional verse-forms in the early twentieth century. From the powerful choral rhythms of Atalanta in Calydon, to the daring development of a unique form of ode in Erechtheus, the reader will encounter a Swinburne previously lost to us, but whose stylistic achievements are once again brought before our ears. Laura McCormick Kilbride is Research Fellow in English at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Reviews:
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Bibliography entry: Kilbride, L. M., Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History (Legenda, 2018) First footnote reference: 35 L. M. Kilbride, Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History (Legenda, 2018), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Kilbride, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Kilbride, L. M.. 2018. Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Kilbride 2018: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Kilbride 2018: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Swinburnes-Style |