Sara Lyons, Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater: Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation
150 years ago, in 1866 the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne published his controversial volume of poetry, Poems and Ballads. That same year, Walter Pater’s first periodical essay ‘Coleridge’s Writings’ appeared in The Westminster Review. The two Victorian writers had both studied at Oxford Universit...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2016
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| Riassunto: | 150 years ago, in 1866 the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne published his controversial volume of poetry, Poems and Ballads. That same year, Walter Pater’s first periodical essay ‘Coleridge’s Writings’ appeared in The Westminster Review. The two Victorian writers had both studied at Oxford University under the tutelage of Benjamin Jowett, the Regius Professor of Greek who argued in favour of a liberal interpretation of Christianity. In spite of their common engagement with the intertwined not... |
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