The poems of Red Arcadia present a jittery, spasmodic-often obscured-series of moving x-ray images of contemporary culture in its frenetic contradictions, its self-destructiveness, and sometimes in its moments of fractured…

Our Lady of Pain is the first selection of Swinburne’s poetry to focus precisely on what his early readers found most objectionable: erotic passion, in both its ‘normal’ and ‘perverse’…