Biography EssayAlgernon Charles Swinburne is justly regarded as the major Victorian poet most profoundly at odds with his age and as one of the most daring, innovative, and brilliant lyricists to ever...
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The English poet, dramatist, and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was famous in Victorian England for the innovative versification of his poetry and infamous for his violent attacks on Vi...
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Algernon Charles Swinburne is justly regarded as the major Victorian poet most profoundly at odds with his age and as one of the most daring, innovative, and brilliant lyricists to ever write in Engli...
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As he was in his own time, Algernon Charles Swinburne is now principally esteemed as a poet rather than as a writer of prose. But during the half century of his literary career Swinburne wrote and had...
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In the following essay, Faas investigates the negative reaction of Victorian critics to Algernon Charles Swinburne's poetry, which often focused on sadomasochistic, anti-Christian, or other &#x...
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In the following essay, Morgan analyzes Algernon Charles Swinburne's critique of Victorian sexual ideology in the dramatic monologues of his Poems and Ballads.
In reply to Victorian critics ...
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In the following essay, Harrison explores Swinburne's treatment of androgynous aspects of human sexuality.
Death and the achievement of organic continuity with the universe represent the end...
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In the following essay, Riede urges a reassessment of Swinburne's later verse.
The enormous bulk of the poetry written in the last thirty years of Swinburne's life has been greeted wi...
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In the following essay, Rooksby offers a close reading of Swinburne's roundel poems, and discusses the major themes of these works.
Swinburne, said T. S. Eliot in 1920, was among that group ...
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In the following essay, Zeiger explores Swinburne's innovative treatment of the elegaic form.
Elegy has traditionally been a search: until the last century, a search with a foregone conclusi...
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In the following essay, Richardson provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of Swinburne's verse.
Less a personality than, as he might have put it, a shoreline, Swinburne is visibl...
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In the following essay, Findlay explores Swinburne's attitude toward Christianity by examining his poems "The Hymn to Prosperpine" and "The Garden of Proserpine."
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In the following essay, Riehl addresses the artistic function of the doubling of characters and character names in three of Swinburne's poems.
Long regarded as deploring work, Swinburne�...
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In the following essay, Carley discusses the defining characteristics of Swinburne's Arthurian poems.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the large group of poets and artists w...
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In the following essay, Pease examines the controversy surrounding the publication of Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, maintaining that the debate was not only about pornography, but also about &...
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Critical Essay by Ekbert Faas
