Atalanta in Calydon

Atalanta in Calydon, A Tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne, appears as A New Edition. The dedication is to the memory of Walter Savage Landor, with equal affection, reverence, and regret, of a poem inscribed to him while yet alive.

The argument says Althaea, daughter of Thestius and Eurythemis, queen of Calydon, being with child of Meleager her first-born son, dreamed that she brought forth a brand burning. The argument says that upon his birth came the three Fates and prophesied of him three things, namely that he should have great strength of his hands, and good fortune in this life, and that he should live no longer when the brand then in the fire were consumed. A speaker wishes the wine of time, made sharp and sweet with multitudinous days and nights and tears and many mixing savours of strange years, were no more trodden of them under feet. A speaker addresses Althaea as the bitter mother and mother-plague of this weary body.