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Swinburne and Delavigne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Martha Hale Shackford
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For those who enjoy tracing literary relationships there is a very attractive problem in regard to the possible indebtedness of Swinburne's The Garden of Proserpine to Delavigne's Les Limbes. Swinburne's poem has long been a favorite, for its subtle cadences have elusive, indefinable melody, and the picture of the dim beauty of Proserpine's realm is a masterpiece of descriptive art. However one may regard the philosophy of languid surrender to extinction, one cannot fail to recognize Swinburne's power in depicting a pallid world where all things are wan, bloomless, and indeterminate.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , 1918 , pp. 85 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1918

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