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Excerpt from L'OEuvre de Swinburne
Nous ne songeons ni aux lecteurs artistes ni � la foule ignorante qui, sans lire Swinburne, le classa nagu�re comme un auteur immoral, r�publicain, ath�e nous connaissons des lettr�s qui, sup�rieurs au pr�jug�, gardent n�anmoins, vis-�-vis du po�te, je ne sais quelle r�serve et quel malaise le jugent un peu �tranger, arr-english (l) rendent hommage a l'artiste, � son g�nie d'invention rythmique et verbale mais insistent bient�t sur la faiblesse du penseur; ne s'amsent nullement que l'auteur des Po�mes et Ballades et des Chants d'avant l'aube fut, � son heure et en son pays, un ferment intellectuel et moral.
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