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Swinburne and His Gods
Margot K. Louis
其他書名
The Roots and Growth of an Agnostic Poetry
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1990-01-01
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Poetry
ISBN07735621419780773562141
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wxb90tjUj9kC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Swinburne and His Gods is the first serious critical analysis to examine the poet's background in the high church in the context of his work. Louis clearly shows Swinburne's fierce and intimate hostility toward the church and reveals his particular irritation with the doctrines of Newman, Keble, and Trench. In her explanation of his poetic use of sacramental imagery, especially those images connected with the Last Supper, Louis shows how Swinburne's eucharists can be murderous or erotic, aesthetic or republican. The demonic parody that characterizes Swinburne's work is shown to have developed through experimentation with neo-romantic alternatives to Christianity: first through the evocation of a quasi-sadistic pessimism, then in the embodiment of the "sun-god of Art," and, finally, as a feeble gesture toward an unknowable deity which moves elusively both within and beyond the natural world. Rather than imposing artificial unity on the poet's career, Louis presents his work as an integrated series of serious and brilliant experiments in Romantic art.