Algernon Charles Swinburne’s “Before a Crucifix” — Commentary and Reading Questions

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• Text of the poem (in the Victorian Web)
• Religion and Politics in “Before a Crucifix”
• Christ, Crucifixes, and the Church
• Conveying Conviction in “Before a Crucifix”
• Religion and the Masses
• Religion and Politics in "Before a Crucifix"
• The Corruption of Catholicism in Swinburne's "Before a Crucifix"
• Swinburne's Condemnation of Christianity in "Before a Crucifix"
• Swinburne's "Before a Crucifix"

References

The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 6 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. II, 81-87. [Text provided by Breanna Byecroft]

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