ABSTRACT

The following selection from Notes on Poems and Reviews (for fuller discussion see the Introduction, section II) contains Swinburne’s comments on several of the poems that had been attacked, short notes on ‘Faustine’, ‘Hermaphroditus’ and ‘Laus Veneris’ being omitted. The text, that of my critical edition in Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope, Dedicatory Epistle (Syracuse, New York, 1966), is reproduced by special permission of the Syracuse University Press, owner of the copyright.