The article reviews several articles that address the life and work of English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, including "'If Thou Art God, Avenge Thyself!': Sade and Swinburne as Christian Atheists," by Carol Poster, "Swinburne's Spasms: 'Poems and Ballads' and the 'Spasmodic School,'" by Kirstie Blair, and "The Artist as Critic: Swinburne's A Year's Letters and Victorian Fiction," by Nicole Fluhr.