Catherine Maxwell is Professor of Victorian Literature at Queen Mary, University of London|Stefano Evangelista is Fellow and Tutor in English at Trinity College, University of Oxford.

Introduction - Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista
Cultural Discourse
1. Swinburne's French voice: cosmopolitanism and cultural mediation in aesthetic criticism - Stefano Evangelista
2. Swinburne's swimmers: from insular peace to the Anglo-Boer War - Julia F. Saville
3. Swinburne: a nineteenth-century Hellene? - Charlotte Ribeyrol
4. 'A juggler's trick'? Swinburne and journalism 1857-75 - Laurel Brake
Form
5. Metrical discipline: Algernon Swinburne on 'The Flogging Block' - Yopie Prins
6. What goes around: A Century of Roundels - Herbert Tucker
7. Desire lines: Swinburne and lyric crisis - Marion Thain
Influence
8. 'Good Satan': the unlikely poetic affinity of Swinburne and Christina Rossetti - Dinah Roe
9. Parleying with Robert Browning: Swinburne's aestheticism, blasphemy, and the dramatic monologue - Sara Lyons
10. Whose muse? Sappho, Swinburne, and Amy Lowell - Sarah Parker
11. Atmosphere and absorption: Swinburne, Eliot, Drinkwater - Catherine Maxwell
Index