ABSTRACT
Most reviewers of Atalanta concerned themselves with the extent to which the play was Greek in style and ideas. The Saturday Review, which like other periodicals praised Swinburne’s command of language and rhythm, did not recognize his ‘anti-theism’ as clearly as did Richard Monckton Milnes, writing anonymously in the Edinburgh Review, though after the scandal of Poems and Ballads this aspect of the play received more attention.
