]]> 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 Hymn to Proserpine ]]> 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.

Tiré de son Hymne à Proserpine ]]> 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.

Del Himno a Proserpina ]]> Proserpine All delicate days and pleasant, all spirits and
    sorrows are caste
Far out, with the foam of the present that sweeps
    to the surf of the past :
Waste water washes, and tall ships founder, and
    deep death waits:
Where beyond the extreme sea-wall, and between
    the remote sea-gates,
Where, mighty with deepening sides, clad about by
    the seas as with wings


And impelled of invisible tides, and fulfilled of
    unspeakable things,
White eyed and poisonous-finned, shark-toothed and
    serpentine-curled,
Rolls, under the withening wind of the future, the
    wave of the world.
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