Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate Hardcover - 2013
by Catherine Maxwell (Editor); Stefano Evangelista (Editor)
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Algernon CharlesSwinburne (1837-1909), dramatist, novelist, and critic, was late Victorian England's unofficial Poet Laureate. Swinburne was admired by his contemporaries for his technical brilliance, his facility with classical and medieval forms, and his courage in expressing his sensual, erotic imagination. His first and best-known verse collection, Poems and Ballads (1866), notable for its consummate craftsmanship and provocative subject matter, created an unrivalled sensation. His radical republican views as expressed in his later political collection Songs before Sunrise (1871) reinforced his reputation as a controversial figure. He was immensely important in his own day but, like several of his contemporaries, suffered neglect and misrepresentation during the first half of the twentieth century. Now, however, Swinburne is acknowledged to be one of the most important Victorian poets, the founding figure for British aestheticism, and the dominant influence for many fin-de-sicle and modernist poets. Forging a vital link between French and English literary culture, he was responsible for promoting avant-garde poets such as Gautier and Baudelaire who would have considerable impact on English decadent writers.
This collection of eleven new essays offers a thorough revaluation of this fascinating and complex figure. It situates him in the light of current critical work on cosmopolitanism, politics, form, Victorian Hellenism, gender and sexuality, the arts, and aestheticism and its contested relation to literary modernism.Details
- Title Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
- Author Catherine Maxwell (Editor); Stefano Evangelista (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Date 2013-01-11
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780719086250 / 0719086256
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.3 x 1.1 in (21.84 x 13.46 x 2.79 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
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