Theme and Subject in in A.C. Swinburne's Poetry

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Love

• Swinburne's "dominant subject from 1857 to 1882 is Love"
• Swinburne's theme of lost love
• Algernon Charles Swinburne: Love in a Meaningless, Ephemeral World
• Food, Famine, and Desire in "Dolores" and Laus Veneris"
• Swinburne's version of the Pre-Raphaelite Fair Lady
• the Tannhäuser legend
• Time, the Fates, and Lost Love in Swinburne's "The Triumph of Time"
• A Synthesis of Form: Shaping Time, Space, and Paradox in Swinburnian Verse

Gender matters and human nature

• Swinburne's Philosophy of Androgyny

Politics and freedom

• Swinburne's Political Poetry
• Self-sacrifice and freedom

Time and history

• Swinburne's "By the North Sea" — Time, Religion, and Civilization
• Time Wrecks Love
• Castaway in the Sea of Time
• Historical figures embody the tragic human condition
• A List of Swinburne's Medievalist Works

Literature and art

• Poetry represents the ultimate form of experience
• Art for art's sake

Philosophy, Religion

• Fate in Tristram
• Greek conception of the tragic human condition

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Last modified 8 May 2009