Download or read book Swinburne and His Gods written by Margot Kathleen Louis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly detailed study, Margot Louis combines close readings of Swinburne's poetry with a wide-ranging analysis of the pressures which influenced the poet. Louis not only examines the ways in which Swinburne was affected by English and French Romantics but comments on the powerful impact on his writing of a childhood steeped in high church theology. Swinburne's ideas of alternative concepts of deity are discussed within the context of nineteenth-century radical "free thought." Louis reflects on the depth and diversity of Swinburne's intellectual interests and their effect on the development of his poetic style.