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[Anonymous No.13093414]

Why is his early so unanimously thought to be better than his late?

[Anonymous No.13093442]

He was only ever a minor writer but he brought something new to English poetry for the first time in nearly half a century. I mean his mastery of different meters so that a cumbrous one seemed light and a long one seemed almost short and clipped, not the themes he pilfered from the worst French or anything else.

There really wasn't much left of him in his later career. He had nothing new to give. His genius with meter was more inherited than anything, as its appearance so early in his life proves. He was one of those writers born with gifts but little room for improvement.

[Anonymous No.13093457]

>>13093442
Also he has the face of a faggot and his hair is gay and he got btfo by Emerson
"Swinburne is a mere sodomite"

[Anonymous No.13093470]

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon,
If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live;
And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.
Out of the mystic and the mournful garden
Where all day through thine hands in barren braid
Wove the sick flowers of secrecy and shade,
Green buds of sorrow and sin, and remnants grey,
Sweet-smelling, pale with poison, sanguine-hearted,
Passions that sprang from sleep and thoughts that started,
Shall death not bring us all as thee one day
Among the days departed?

[Anonymous No.13093521]

>>13093442
But much of his late work, in theme and tone, is basically a precursor to Jeffers. That's not really present in his early work. Also, his metrical artistry is even better in the late work. First Series has plenty chinks in the metrical armor; I find Third Series' poems much tighter.

[Anonymous No.13093952]

Well, would you be able to top the "I fucked a monkey and then ate it" story?

[Anonymous No.13094484]

>>13093470
Based Ave atque vale poster