Author : Margot Kathleen Louis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773507159
Swinburne and His Gods by Margot Kathleen Louis Pdf
In this richly detailed study, Margot Louis combines close readings of Swinburne's poetry with a wide-ranging analysis of the pressures which influenced the poet. Louis not only examines the ways in which Swinburne was affected by English and French Romantics but comments on the powerful impact on his writing of a childhood steeped in high church theology. Swinburne's ideas of alternative concepts of deity are discussed within the context of nineteenth-century radical "free thought." Louis reflects on the depth and diversity of Swinburne's intellectual interests and their effect on the development of his poetic style.