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Astrophel and Other Poems

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Astrophel and Other Poems

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

English· 03:43:21· 41 chapters
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)
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Astrophel

    09:32
  2. Chapter 2

    A Nympholept

    23:01
  3. Chapter 3

    On the South Coast

    13:22
  4. Chapter 4

    An Autumn Vision

    16:39
  5. Chapter 5

    A Swimmer's Dream

    07:51
  6. Chapter 6

    Grace Darling

    09:45
  7. Chapter 7

    Loch Torridon

    10:23
  8. Chapter 8

    The Palace of Pan

    04:04
  9. Chapter 9

    A Year's Carols

    05:46
  10. Chapter 10

    England: an Ode

    08:00
  11. Chapter 11

    Eton: an Ode

    03:47
  12. Chapter 12

    The Union

    02:10
  13. Chapter 13

    East to West

    01:47
  14. Chapter 14

    Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal

    02:31
  15. Chapter 15

    On the Death of Richard Burton

    04:10
  16. Chapter 16

    Elegy

    10:48
  17. Chapter 17

    A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning

    08:40
  18. Chapter 18

    Sunset and Moonrise

    01:39
  19. Chapter 19

    Birthday Ode

    03:06
  20. Chapter 20

    Threnody

    03:11
  21. Chapter 21

    The Ballad of Melicertes

    03:20
  22. Chapter 22

    Au Tombeau de Banville

    01:15
  23. Chapter 23

    Light: an Epicide

    02:57
  24. Chapter 24

    Threnody

    02:36
  25. Chapter 25

    A Dirge

    01:25
  26. Chapter 26

    A Reminicence

    01:19
  27. Chapter 27

    Via Dolorosa

    09:04
  28. Chapter 28

    In Memory of Aurelio Saffi

    07:23
  29. Chapter 29

    The Festival of Beatrice

    01:18
  30. Chapter 30

    The Monument of Giordano Bruno

    02:31
  31. Chapter 31

    Life in Death

    01:14
  32. Chapter 32

    Epicede

    04:19
  33. Chapter 33

    Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott

    06:23
  34. Chapter 34

    An Old Saying

    01:22
  35. Chapter 35

    A Moss-Rose

    01:15
  36. Chapter 36

    To a Cat

    03:39
  37. Chapter 37

    Hawthorn Dyke

    01:15
  38. Chapter 38

    The Brothers

    04:38
  39. Chapter 39

    Jacobite Song

    03:40
  40. Chapter 40

    The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay

    07:19
  41. Chapter 41

    Dedication

    04:57