]]> Charles Algernon Swinburne was born in London (England) in 1837.

Even if his victorian contemporaries were outraged by his mystical appraoch of morbidity and his unconventional use of sexual imagery, he remains an absolute master of the English meter.

Taken from his tragedy Atalanta in Calydon ]]> Charles Algernon Swinburne est né à Londres (Angleterre) en 1837

Même si ses contemporains victoriens ont été choqués par son approche mystique de la morbidité et un usage peu conventionnel de l'imagerie sexuelle, il reste un maître écontesté du vers anglais.

Extrait de sa tragédie Atalante à Calydon ]]> Charles Algernon Swinburne nacido en Londres (Inglaterra) en 1837

A pesar de que sus contemporaneos fueron assustado de su mezcla del mysticismo y de la morbilidad, el sigue siendo un incontestable maestro del verso inglés en la era victoriana.

De su tragedía Atalanta en Calydon ]]> Atalanta Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;
Grief, with a cup that ran;
Pleasure, with pain for leaven;
Summer, with flowers that fell;
Remembrance fallen from Heaven,
And madness risen from Hell
Strenght without hands to smite;
Love that endures for a breath:
Night, the shadow of Light
And Life the shadow of death.

And the high gods took in hand
Fire, and the falling of tears,
And a measure of slinding sang
From under the feet of the years;
And froth and drift of the sea;
And dust of the labouring earth;
And bodies of things to be
In the houses of deatn and of birth;
& wrought with weeping & laughter,
& faqshioned with loathing & love,
With Life before and after
And death beneath and above,
For a day and a night and a morrow
That his strenght might endure for a span
With travail and heavy sorrow,
The holy spirit of man.
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