Ode to Mazzini, The Saviour of Society, Liberty and Loyalty (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ode to Mazzini, The Saviour of Society, Liberty and LoyaltyThe Ode to Mazzini was found, after Swinburne's death, in an old copy-book, from which many leaves had already been torn, presumably by himself. His lifelong reluctance to copy his poems for the press makes it probable that this book had contained the various pieces which he contributed to Undergraduate Papers. Perhaps the removal of these loosened a page of the Ode to Mazzini, containing the close of strophe IV, and the whole of strophe V, for this, most unfortunately, has disappeared. It may be well to point out that at the time he wrote, and for long years to come, Swinburne seems to have had no personal knowledge of Mazzini. But he followed with ardent sympathy the propaganda of the friends of "Young Italy" in London, at the head of whose executive council stood the inspiring name of Walter Savage Landor.The original MS. contains no indication of date, and the generally rhetorical character of the poetry makes it at first sight impossible to obtain any such term.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.