Swinburne and his gods : the roots and growth of an agnostic poetry / / Margot K. Louis
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| Autore: |
Louis Margot Kathleen <1954-2007.>
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| Titolo: |
Swinburne and his gods : the roots and growth of an agnostic poetry / / Margot K. Louis
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1990 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 242 p. ; ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina: | 821/.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Agnosticism in literature |
| Religion in literature | |
| Gods in literature | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Contents -- Texts and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sacred Elements -- Demonic Parody and the Great Whore -- The Sacrament of Violence -- The Sacrament of Harmony -- The New Gods -- Songs before Sunrise: Man and God Thou -- Songs of the Springtides: The Sun-God and the Sea -- Astrophel: The Unknowable God -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Myth and Allegory in William Blake -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Swinburne and his gods |
| ISBN: | 1-282-85141-1 |
| 9786612851414 | |
| 0-7735-6214-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825149603321 |
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