Book Description

In An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, published in 1934, three pamphlet issues of Swinburne were proved to be forgeries (that is, falsely dated with fraudulent intent). Dead Love (1864), Doloris (1867) and Siena (the 'first published edition,' 1868). Three more were concluded to be suspect: Luis Veneris (1866), Cleopatra (1866) and An Appeal to England against the Execution of the Condemned Fenians (1867). A number of other Swinburne pamphlets dated between 1866 and 1896 were cursorily reviewed in a postscript, in order, as the authers put it, that any further suspicion might be kept within proper limits.