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Article: Swinburne.
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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This has been an extremely thin year for Swinburne studies. Last year I discussed Heather Seagroatt's "Swinburne Separates the Men from the Girls: Sensationalism in Poems and Ballads" (VLC 30 [2002]: 41-59), Malcolm Hardman's "Faithful to the Greek?: Swinburnian Patterning (Hopkinsian Dapple)" (YES 32 [2002]: 19-35), and Robert Sawyer's "Looking for Mr. Goodbard: Swinburne, Resentment Criticism, and the Invention of Harold Bloom," in Harold Bloom's Shakespeare, so I will say no more of these works. Only a handful of other articles on or partly on the poet have since appeared, along with a poem and a novel. The primary foci for this year are aestheticism, sex, and science. ...