Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse: An Overview

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Biographical Materials

• Biographical Essay
• Other Works

Literary Relations

• Compared to Arnold's (1852) and Tennyson's versions (1871)
• Arthurian context
• Keats's "Ode on Melancholy."
• Homer, Virgil, Dante, Spenser, and the epic
• Miltonic echoes in Swinburne's Tristram
• Swinburne as superb parodist and imitator of earlier poets
• Fate of protagonists in Tristram and Atalanta in Calydon
• Swinburne's Literary Relations (other works)
• Carlylean parallel
• Aesthetes and Decadents
• Victorianism

Religion and Philosophy

Science and Technology

Theme and Technique

• Themes>standard epic techniques of parallelisms, themeatic repetitions, and extended similes

Bibliography

• Chapter in Harrison, Swinburne's Medievalism

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Last modified June 2000