THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SWINBURNE.

A Bibliographical List arranged in Chronological Order of the Published Writings in Verse and Prose of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1857-1887).

Preface to the New Edition.

Born on April 5, 1837, in the year of Queen Victoria’s accession, of which the whole nation is now celebrating the Jubilee, Algernon Charles Swinburne to-day attains the jubilee or fiftieth year of his own life, and may be therefore claimed as an essentially and exclusively Victorian poet. Of the half-century of life now completed, more than a quarter of a century has been devoted to fruitful and noble work in song and to work hardly less fruitful and noble in the field of criticism.

In issuing this new edition, revised throughout and brought down to date, of a bibliographical record originally published nearly four years ago, the compiler cannot deny himself the pleasure of associating with the date the coincidence, not only of a double jubilee, but also of a double birthday, viz., his own.

Long distant may the day be when this record, already so goodly an one, can be made complete in a final sense, and collectors of the books of our greatest Victorian poet and critic be able to echo Lord Melbourne’s callous expression of grateful relief that they can bind him up!

As on former occasions, the compiler invites the co-operation of literary correspondents, and will be grateful to anyone who will correct an error or supply an omission.

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