The Flogging-Block is Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne¿s mock-heroic tribute to corporal punishment. In a prologue and twelve eclogues, Swinburne describes, with considerable vigour and black humour, the torment, anguish, and delights of the scholastic rod from the perspectives of beaten school boys, despotic masters, and joyous witnesses. This edition of The Flogging-Block is a page by page transcription of the original manuscript, which is owned by the British Library.