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Apollo's Presence
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Apollonian Experience
Apollonian Imagery
Apollonian Myth
Apollonian Poetry
Apollo’s Presence
Author_Yisrael Levin
Book III
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Cispadane Republic
cultural history of faith
Du Mal
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Female Sublime
imagery
Impulsive Tradition
Infinitive Root
Lang's Tone
Lang’s Tone
last
Les Fleurs Du Mal
myth
mythological symbolism
Napoleon III
nineteenth-century religion
Nymph's Emergence
Nymph’s Emergence
oracle
Pan's Presence
Pan’s Presence
Poem's Opening Stanza
Poem’s Opening Stanza
poetry
religious scepticism
Sappho's Song
Sappho’s Song
secular spirituality
sentiments
Solar Imagery
Sun's Light
Sun’s Light
Super Flumina Babylonis
Swinburne Readers
swinburnes
Torturous Nature
Unified Italy
Victorian poetic reinterpretation of Apollo
Victorian poetry
william
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409430469
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's poems on Apollo, Yisrael Levin calls for a re-examination of the poet's place in Victorian studies in light of his contributions to nineteenth-century intellectual history. Swinburne's Apollonian poetry, Levin argues, shows the poet's active participation in late-Victorian debates about the nature and function of faith in an age of changing religious attitudes. Levin traces the shifts that took place in Swinburne's conception of Apollo over a period of four decades, from Swinburne's attempt to define Apollo as an alternative to the Judeo-Christian deity to Swinburne's formation of a theological system revolving around Apollo and finally to the ways in which Swinburne's view of Apollo led to his agnostic view of spirituality. Even though Swinburne had lost his faith and rejected institutional religion by his early twenties, he retained a distinct interest in spiritual issues and paid careful attention to developments in religious thought. Levin persuasively shows that Swinburne was not simply a poet provocateur who enjoyed controversy but failed to provide valid cultural commentary, but was rather a profound thinker whose insights into nineteenth-century spirituality are expressed throughout his Apollonian poetry.
Yisrael Levin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA.
