Sillages Critiques (Dec 2009)
De l’artifice au vacillement : “A Singing Lesson” (A Century of Roundels, 1883) d’A. C. Swinburne
Abstract
A.C. Swinburne has long been considered an exceedingly clever master of hollow musical poetic tricks and devices. Based on an analysis of ‘A Singing Lesson’ (1883), this article intends to highlight that, despite and because of his technical skill and craft, his handling of form and diction radically questions the supposed univocal didactic straightforwardness of the poem as content.
