General
- His favorite authors
- Attitude towards poetic tradition
- Homer, Virgil, Dante, Spenser, and the epic
- Swinburne and Ovid
- Swinburne as superb parodist and imitator of earlier poets
- The Difficulties of Victorian Poetry — Browning, Hopkins, Swinburne, Tennyson
- Swinburne's Masterly Hand: Wagnerian Leitmotifs in "Tristram of Lyonesse"
- Swinburne's shifting reception
- Extensive engagements, personal and literary, with Christina Rossetti and other women writers
Medieval
- The Troubadours
- Chaucer (general) and in relation to Balen
- The Troubadours
- fidelity to Arthurian sources
- François Villon
Renaissance and Eighteenth Century
Swinburne on His Contemporaries and Other Nineteenth-Century Poets
- “Mr. Arnold has at once a passion and a genius for definitions”: Swinburne on Matthew Arnold’s Critical Method and Judgment
- Lord Byron a Bad Person and a Bad Poet
- Swinburne’s critical essay on Charles Reade
- Allusions to Keats
- Elizabeth Sewell reports his views of George Eliot and E. B. Browning
- Praise for Sir Walter Scott
- “Exalted and so composed, so ardent and serene”: Swinburne on The Poetry of Wordsworth and Milton
- Swinburne on Wordsworth’s Patriotism, Conservative Politics, and Yet Openness to One Liberal Cause
- Swinburne on Wordsworth as the Poet of Suffering, and of Sympathy with Suffering
- Swinburne on Wordsworth’s Poetry and the Wordsworthians
Nineteenth Century — Influence, Confluence, Opposition
- Burne-Jones, Pater, and Swinburne as Founders of Later (or Aesthetic) Pre-Raphaelitism
- Matthew Arnold
- Robert Buchanan's attack on Rossetti and Swinburne: "The Fleshy School of Poetry (text)"
- Mother's love — How Maternal projection is used to explore spirituality in the poetry of Gerald Manley Hopkins and Charles Algernon Swinburne
- Shelley, R. Browning, and Tennyson
- Baudelaire and Hugo
- Baudelaire, art for art's sake, and ethical poetry
- Blake, Shelley, and Political Themes
- Blake as model for his own conception of art
- Blake and Keats
- Tristram of Lyonesse and Romanticism
- Tragic vision compared to that of Arnold and Hardy
- J. Swift, R. Browning, and Tennyson
- Tennyson, D. Rossetti, and Hopkins
- Compared to Tennyson as a medievalist
- Whitman and Poe
- An ascetic aesthete — like Christina Rossetti
- Dickens and Swinburne’s Images of the Seas
- Beerbohm on how the vitality and abundance of Swinburne's ideas creates obscurity
Nineteenth Century — Reception, Reputation, and Criticism by Contemporaries
- Marie Corelli's turn-of-the-century attacks on Swinburne
- Oscar Wilde’s “Mr. Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads (Third Series)” — statement of Swinburne’s limitations
Modernists
Parodies
Last modified 7 April 2020