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Chargement... Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate (édition 2016)par Catherine Maxwell (Directeur de publication), Stefano Evangelista (Directeur de publication)
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Algernon CharlesSwinburne (18371909), 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-siecle 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Swinburne was poet, critic and scholar (this triumvirate challenging TS Eliot, it is argued in here, on his own turf, so that he pushed aside Swinburne in anxiety): his studies of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, William Blake, Baudelaire and Gautier, being as innovative and readable as his poetry. This book seeks to cover Swinburne in all his roles, as well as Swinburne early and late (he suffered from being rescued from an early death, but the 'early and late' legend is exaggerated; I cannot think it a pity he survived).
A couple of highlights:
Charlotte Ribeyrol on Swinburne as Hellene: but for Greeks of the margins, dark Greece, to cut against the nineteenth century cult of a clean, white, rational Greek heritage. Gilbert Murray and Jane Harrison used his vision.
Sarah Parker on Sappho, Swinburne and Amy Lowell. Sappho was Swinburne's muse; although he worshipped Baudelaire, you see a giant step from the French poet's grotesque lesbians to Swinburne, who was the first to portray Sappho explicitly as lesbian (and not grossly). I am beyond delighted to learn that several queer women writers of the early twentieth century found his poetry 'enabling'. Lowell, her body, her sexuality and her poetry subject to caricature by the same kind of people as caricatured Swinburne -- Eliot, Anglo-Catholic and too Tory for the Tory party; Ezra Pound, actual fascist -- was one of these.
Also: the lyric disguised in the dramatic of 'Anactoria', with reference to Browning; his mutual esteem, across the divide of religious views, with Christina Rosetti; Swinburne as a broker of French culture, in a cosmopolitanism of outsiders as against Matthew Arnold. ( )