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Swinburne 1837-1909

Swinburne 1837-1909. “The Garden of Proserpine”. Pre-Raphaelites. The Pre-Raphaelites were painters mostly, but Dante Gabriel Rossetti was also a poet, and colleagues such as Algernon Swinburne, although not a painter, were still called Pre-Raphaelites.

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Swinburne 1837-1909

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  1. Swinburne 1837-1909 “The Garden of Proserpine”

  2. Pre-Raphaelites • The Pre-Raphaelites were painters mostly, but Dante Gabriel Rossetti was also a poet, and colleagues such as Algernon Swinburne, although not a painter, were still called Pre-Raphaelites. • Rossetti was the leader of a new generation of romantics who began their careers rebelling against the High Victorians.

  3. Rossetti was the leader of the Pre-Raphaelites, and his paintings set the style for the group and for the later Aesthetes and Decadents. • His models were his girlfriends: Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth, and Jenny Morris, the wife of William Morris.

  4. Fanny

  5. Swinburne, as part of the Pre-Raphaelite group, was aware of all the paintings and themes of his colleagues. • However, he diverged from their idealistic presentation of women. • Swinburne used their images but had his own notions of the relationship of the sexes.

  6. In “The Garden of Proserpine” Swinburne had in mind the idealized image of Rossetti’s painting, but he added his own notions of erotic relations. Death, pale lips, necrophilia--lord knows what he had in mind. • Here’s Rossetti’s painting first:

  7. This poem has the flavour of the later Decadence with its world-weariness, resignation, fascination with the corrupt and dying. Despair has become fashionable. • Remember the earlier ubi sunt theme? We can see in this poem where, in fact, where all dead things go.

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