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Write a critical appreciation of atlanta in calydon

Answer 1

Atalanta in Calydon (1865), the first and greatest ‘Greek’ tragedy in English of Algernon Charles Swinburne, is one of the lost futures of English verse. In its portentous moods, emotional violence, and above all its metrical range and virtuosity, the play recalls the sensations of Attic drama. Approaching the text through phenomenology — that is, the study of subjective experience of sense-perception — we can enter a netherworld between dead Greek and living English.

George Saintsbury saw Atalanta open a new realm of phenomenological possibility in English verse: what he called the ‘renouveau of English prosody’ (1923: 335).1 In a harsher mode, T. S. Eliot in ‘Swinburne as Poet’ feels the language of Atalanta haunting us in a Hellenistic unconscious: ‘it is effective because it appears to be a tremendous statement, like statements made in our dreams’ (1920: 135). Eliot quotes as evidence the first stanza of Atalanta’s second choral ode,

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…came with the verse drama Atalanta in Calydon (1865), in which he attempted to re-create in English the spirit and form of Greek tragedy; his lyric powers are at their finest in this work. Atalanta was followed by the first series of Poems and Ballads in 1866, which clearly display…