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Title: A Study of Shakespeare
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Editor: Edmund Gosse
Release Date: August 1, 2005 [eBook #16412]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE
BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.
PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
Begun in the winter of 1874, a first instalment of "A Study of
Shakespeare" appeared in the _Fortnightly Review_ for May 1875, and a
second in the number for June 1876, but the completed work was not issued
in book form until June 1880. In a letter to me (January 31, 1875),
Swinburne said:
"I am now at work on my long-designed essay or study on the metrical
progress or development of Shakespeare, as traceable by ear and _not_
by finger, and the general changes of tone and stages of mind
expressed or involved in this change or progress of style.
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