SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "Philip Massinger," with numerous deletions, emendations and revisions, n.d. [paper watermarked 1879, published 1889]. 45 pages, folio, written mostly on the rectos of 44 leaves of blue paper (one revision made on verso), bound with calligraphic title page and The Fortnightly Review, No. 271, New Series (1 July 1889), pp. 2-23, in which the essay was first printed, in navy morocco gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers detached. Swinburne opens his extended essay on the seventeenth-century dramatist by noting a paradox: "It is no less singular than certain that the fame of no English poet can ever have passed through more alternate variations of notice and neglect than that of the most temperate, studious, and conscientious of the successors of Shakespeare..." Swinburne evaluates earlier critics of Massinger, including James Boswell Leslie Stephens, Hartley Coleridge and William Hazlitt Massinger, Swinburne concludes, "is secure against all chance of oblivion or eclipse as long as his countrymen retain any sense of sympathetic admiration and respect for the work and the memory of a most admirable and conscientious writer..."
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "Philip Massinger," with numerous deletions, emendations and revisions, n.d. [paper watermarked 1879, published 1889]. 45 pages, folio, written mostly on the rectos of 44 leaves of blue paper (one revision made on verso), bound with calligraphic title page and The Fortnightly Review, No. 271, New Series (1 July 1889), pp. 2-23, in which the essay was first printed, in navy morocco gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers detached. Swinburne opens his extended essay on the seventeenth-century dramatist by noting a paradox: "It is no less singular than certain that the fame of no English poet can ever have passed through more alternate variations of notice and neglect than that of the most temperate, studious, and conscientious of the successors of Shakespeare..." Swinburne evaluates earlier critics of Massinger, including James Boswell Leslie Stephens, Hartley Coleridge and William Hazlitt Massinger, Swinburne concludes, "is secure against all chance of oblivion or eclipse as long as his countrymen retain any sense of sympathetic admiration and respect for the work and the memory of a most admirable and conscientious writer..."
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