Our Lady of Pain by Algernon Charles Swinburne Adam ORiordan both the graft of the

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Our Lady of Pain by Algernon Charles Swinburne Adam ORiordan both the graft of theSwinburne's first collection, Poems and Ballads (1866), generated a storm of critical and public controversy, being attacked for licentiousness and anti theism. His publisher withdrew the book within days of publication, and the author was forced to transfer his works to another house. The present selection of Swinburnes verse focuses precisely on what the first reviewers of the 1866 book found most objectionable: erotic passion, in both its normal