Download or read book Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND BALLADS brought him notoriety and demonstrates his preoccupation with de Sade, masochism, and femmes fatales. Also reproduced here is 'Notes on Poems and Reviews', a pamphlet Swinburne published in 1866 in response to hostile reviews of POEMS AND BALLADS.