Charles Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the British poet Charles Algernon Swinburne, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages

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Literary Criticism

Eliot, T.S. "Swinburne as Poet." The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, 1922.

Lessenich, Rolf P. "Ideals Versus Realities: Nineteenth-Century Decadent Identity and the Renaissance." [Covers Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Robert Browning, and Swinburne]. EESE 1/2004

Louis, Margot. A substantial introduction to Swinburne from the Literary Encyclopedia

Introductory, Overview

Essays on Swinburne's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the cultural background, from the Victorian Web

Victorian aesthetes and decadents, from the Victorian Web

A brief introduction to Swinburne from the University of Guelph

Internet Texts, Web Sites

Web site for The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, a semi-annual, refereed journal covering Pre-Raphaelite, aesthetic, and decadent art, culture, and literature. The web site currently provides a list of article titles back to 1987

Notes on the Victorians and their art from the Tate Museum, designed for use by teachers of all grade levels, provides a good introduction to the Victorian period and particularly to Victorian art

Removed Literary Criticism

The peer-reviewed journal Victorian Poetry has removed articles formerly available through a commercial, open access publisher, Bnet (formerly findarticles.com). The urls for Victorian Poetry articles have changed several times since I began cataloging them, and I have in the past updated the links when they were moved. I probably will not update these links again, even if the articles do appear somewhere else on the internet. All the Victorian Poetry articles listed below can be found through a good academic library, but will require, in most cases a password issued by a university to read them.

Pease, Allison. "Questionable Figures: Swinburne's Poems and Ballads." Pease considers art and obscenity iin Swinburne's Poems and Ballads. Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 1, Spring 1996

Rooksby, Rikky. A review of Swinburne: A Poet's Life (Scolar Press, 1997). Reviewed in Victorian Poetry

Elliott, Philip L. "No Friends of Roses: Tennyson, Swinburne, and the Sad Young Man." Eliot discusses the literary influence of Swinburne and Tennyson on each other. Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 1, Spring 1996

Joyner, Michael. "Of Time and the Garden: Swinburne's 'A Forsaken Garden.'" Joyner analyzes the dialogue between the human mind and the natural world in "A Forsaken Garden." Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 1, Spring 1996

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