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S tow's Survey of London. 



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Swift's Choice Works, 



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 merely as a poet would have come down to us, and have gone down to posterity, 

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The Queen Mother and 



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Atalanta in Calydon. 



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Chastelard. 



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Poems and Ballads. 



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Songs before Sunrise. 



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Bothwell. 



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Songs of Two Nations.. 



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Erechtheus : 



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" The easy sweep of his flowing verse suggests anything rather than the idea of 

 effort. Nor have we ever seen him stronger than in this poem of ' ERECHTHEUS ; ' 

 while no one can say, as they are borne along "with his melodious numbers, that he 

 has been betrayed into sacrificing meaning to sound. He seems to have caught the 

 enthusiasm of a congenial subject ; to have been carried back to the spirit of an 

 heroic age, to have fired his fancy with the thoughts and sensations that might have 

 animated the soul of a god-born Athenian in the supreme crisis of his country's 

 fate. . . . Never before has Mr. Swinburne shown himself more masterly in 

 his cftoruses / magnificent in their fire and spirit, they have more than the usual 

 graces of diction and smoothness of melody. . . . The best proof of the winning 

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 to a pause in the course of quotation. You feel it almost sacrilegious to detach 

 the gems, and it is with a sense of your ruthless Vandalism that you shatter the 

 artist's setting." EDINBURGH REVIEW, July> 1876, in a review of "Erechtheus." 



