The poetry of Victorian masculinities29 Richard Dellamora places Swinburne's "poetic perversities" in relation to
representations of alternative masculinities by Tennyson, Arnold, and Gerard
Manley Hopkins in Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheti-
cistn (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 83.
30 Thai's E. Morgan examines the representation of masculinities in this contro-
versy in "Victorian Effeminacies," in Victorian Sexual Dissidence, ed. Richard
Dellamora (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 109-25.
31 Robert Buchanan, The Fleshly School of Poetry and Other Phenomena of the
Day (London: Strahan, 1872), reprinted in The Victorian Muse: Selected
Criticism and Parody of the Period, eds. William E. Fredeman, Ira B. Nadel,
and John F. Stasny (New York: Garland, 1986), 32.
32 Buchanan links the "Fleshly School" of the i86os-early 1870s to the "Spas-
modic School" of the late 1840S-1850S (15). Linda Dowling shows the
importance of "classical republicanism" to the charge of "effeminacy" in
Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1994), xv, 4-5.
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