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The final chapter compares the idea of the aesthetic gaze in a group of mirror poems and contrasts the role of the aesthetic gaze implicit in Swinburne’s poem and Whistler’s painting with a group of mirror poems by Hardy. The focus here is upon the ‘ghostly’ sensuality of Swinburne’s Decadent ‘pleasures and pains’ as contrasted with the material reality, verbal directness and echoes of folk-memory in Hardy’s poetry.
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Ebbatson, R. (2016). ‘Before the Mirror’: Swinburne, Hardy, Kristeva. In: Landscapes of Eternal Return. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32838-6_11
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