Circles and the In-Between: Shaping Time, Space, and Paradox in Swinburnian Verse

One of the first trends that readers note upon looking at Algemon Charles Swinburne's landscape and erotic poetry is his tendency toward the use of paradox. Taking this technique as a lens through which to observe Swinburnian verse, readers find themselves caught in a kaleidoscopic world of abs...

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Published in:Victorian poetry 2006-09, Vol.44 (3), p.293-309
Main Author: Eron, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British & Irish literature
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
Circles
Criticism and interpretation
Death
English literature
Erotic poetry
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)
Literary criticism
Love
Love poetry
Paradoxes
Poetry
Poets
Religious poetry
Stanzas
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)
Victorians
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Summary:One of the first trends that readers note upon looking at Algemon Charles Swinburne's landscape and erotic poetry is his tendency toward the use of paradox. Taking this technique as a lens through which to observe Swinburnian verse, readers find themselves caught in a kaleidoscopic world of abstractions. In most of Swinburne's landscape poetry, images are at once drawn and thereupon erased, observations asserted and thereupon rejected. Eron examines the many reasons for Swinburne's attraction to this particular poetic device, which help readers comprehend the Swinburnian vision as one which always and necessarily depends upon the phenomenology of contradiction and ambiguity.
ISSN:0042-5206
1530-7190
1530-7190
DOI:10.1353/vp.2006.0030