Swinburne's Medievalism: A Study in Victorian Love Poetry

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  innashpitzberg

  29 октября 2012

  For Swinburne the element that the medieval age contributed to our culture was rich and complex. But, as we have seen, the late Middle Ages especially served Swinburne as a historical paradigm, a premodern period of relatively simple though conflicting political, social, religious, and amatory values that gave birth to great myths of love. Such myths and the art that embodies them powerfully expose all important aspects of the tragic human condition and its ultimate beauty.
  

  Если вы любите Суинберна так, как люблю его я, то рано или поздно на просторах интернета вы наткнетесь вот на эту работу профессора английской литературы и страстного поклонника Суинберна, Энтони Гаррисона. Ну и не только наткнетесь, но и с удовольствием прочитаете, как с огромным удовольствием прочитала я, этот подробный, профессиональный и чрезвычайно интересный анализ главных поэм Суинберна на средневековые сюжеты о рыцарях Короля Артура. В качестве бонуса - о поэзии викторианцев вообще, и прерафаэлитов в частности.

  Гаррисон очень порадовал прекрасным разбором произведений, очень мощным философской, литературной и психологическим контекстом для понимания Суинберна, и прекрасным отношением к произведениям поэта, который давно уже стал одним из любимых.

  И да, я в последнее время очень много пишу о Суинберне, но ведь для меня это год стал годом Суинберна, помните?

  
  In Kierkegaardian terms, Tristram is a knight of infinite resignation. Not always content, as Swinburne declared himself to be, accepting the "absolute mystery" of destiny, he nonetheless rejoices in the experiences and visions of nature's unity that his fate allows him. Although he alternates between triumph and grief, even at his worst moments this "changefully forlorn" knight is regenerated by an instinct of hope, whose symbol and sanction in the natural world is the planet Venus and in Arthurian society is Merlin.

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  innashpitzberg

  18 августа 2012

  Throughout Balen, Swinburne uses these images to suggest a return to nature that Victorians such as not in print version Ruskin and not in print version Morris continually associated with medieval times. (For instance, the pun on the word nature in Ruskin's famous chapter "The Nature of Gothic" has to my knowledge not yet been mentioned by his critics.) He also employs images from nature to enhance the medieval atmosphere. not in print version Pre-Raphaelite effects periodically suspend the poem's intense action and provide tableaux, as in a Gothic tapestry.

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  innashpitzberg

  18 августа 2012

  As Swinburne matured, his important poetry became less erotic and sadomasochistic, less iconoclastic, and concerned less with the divisions between men than with the common experiences that unite them. The movement of his love poetry's dominant philosophical concerns — from eros to caritas — reflects that development. His initial sympathies with the special individual in conflict with society and tortured by frustrated passion, expanded to include all individuals in society who blindly suffer erotic unfulfillment and inevitably endure impassioned political, religious, and amatory conflict. Increasingly, too, in all his poems sympathy and communion with nature (which is in harmony with the ostensible disharmony of men's lives) provide temporary solace and fulfillment, as does art that memorializes human tragedies of love and conflict. Yet, throughout his career, more consistently and successfully than any other distinct group of works by Swinburne, his medievalist poems demonstrate his irrepressible desire to memorialize and beatify the tragic life of humanity, in which we all live and move and have our being.

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  innashpitzberg

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  For Swinburne the element that the medieval age contributed to our culture was rich and complex. But, as we have seen, the late Middle Ages especially served Swinburne as a historical paradigm, a premodern period of relatively simple though conflicting political, social, religious, and amatory values that gave birth to great myths of love. Such myths and the art that embodies them powerfully expose all important aspects of the tragic human condition and its ultimate beauty.

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