Religious Themes and Contexts in Swinburne's Poetry (original) (raw)

Swinburne's beliefs

• Swinburne and Religion: an Introduction
• Swinburne's hostility to religion
• Swinburne's explicit statement on religious matters
• Visionary fatalism
• The role of Change in the world
• The High Church party in the Established Church
• Religion in Victorian England
• Nineteenth-cenury atheism

Religion in Swinburne's Poetry

• Mr. Swinburne’s Debt to the Bible (1880)

[Detailed discussion with many examples of Swinburne's use scripture for parody and attack by a Victorian critici who knows both his Bible and his Swiunburne]

• Swinburne's Secular Use of The Passion
• Swinburne Denounces the Catholic Church
• Faith is Fire: Reversal of Biblical Norms in "Before a Crucifix"
• Christianity and erotic passion in Poems and Ballads, First Series
• Wine, Bread, Body and Blood: How Swinburne Borrows Christian Imagery in "The Triumph of Time"
• Time and Religion in Swinburne's "Hymn to Proserpine"
• "Hymn to Proserpine": The Rise of Christianity
• Religion and the Masses in "The Triumph of Time"
• The world's presiding monistic life-force, Hertha
• Tristram a Kierkegaardian "knight of infinite resignation"

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