Between Swinburne and Baudelaire — and Hopkins

Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal/Flowers of Evil

Swinburne, Ave atque vale; A Forsaken Garden  

Hopkins, Spring and Fall, Spring and Death; No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief

Recommended: 

Garland, “Brothers in Paradox: Swinburne, Baudelaire, and the Paradox of Sin”

Eron, “Circles and the In-Between: Shaping Time, Space, and Paradox in Swinburnian Verse”

Casey “Hopkins: Poetry and Philosophy”