About this recording
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2019.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death. (Wikipedia)
