Astrophel and Other Poems
Algernon Charles Swinburne
41 chapters · 3 h 43 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, Lauren Fontaine, laurakgibbs, Agnes Robert Behr, ErinK, Larry Wilson and others
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A collection of poems by the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, first published in 1904 and dedicated to the artist and designer William Morris.
The first poem is a tribute to the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney and his sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Chapters
1 Astrophel 10 min 2 A Nympholept 23 min 3 On the South Coast 13 min 4 An Autumn Vision 17 min 5 A Swimmer's Dream 8 min 6 Grace Darling 10 min 7 Loch Torridon 10 min 8 The Palace of Pan 4 min 9 A Year's Carols 6 min 10 England: an Ode 8 min 11 Eton: an Ode 4 min 12 The Union 2 min 13 East to West 2 min 14 Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal 3 min 15 On the Death of Richard Burton 4 min 16 Elegy 11 min 17 A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning 9 min 18 Sunset and Moonrise 2 min 19 Birthday Ode 3 min 20 Threnody 3 min 21 The Ballad of Melicertes 3 min 22 Au Tombeau de Banville 1 min 23 Light: an Epicide 3 min 24 Threnody 3 min 25 A Dirge 1 min 26 A Reminicence 1 min 27 Via Dolorosa 9 min 28 In Memory of Aurelio Saffi 7 min 29 The Festival of Beatrice 1 min 30 The Monument of Giordano Bruno 3 min 31 Life in Death 1 min 32 Epicede 4 min 33 Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott 6 min 34 An Old Saying 1 min 35 A Moss-Rose 1 min 36 To a Cat 4 min 37 Hawthorn Dyke 1 min 38 The Brothers 5 min 39 Jacobite Song 4 min 40 The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay 7 min 41 Dedication 5 min
