Swinburne's Apollo

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne''s poems on Apollo, Yisrael Levin calls for a re-examination of the poet''s place in Victorian studies in light of his contributions to nineteenth-century intellectual history. Swinburne''s Apollonian poetry, Levin argues, shows the poet''s active participation in late-Victorian debates about the nature and function of faith in an age of changing religious at...