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Astrophel and Other Poems

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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) (3 hr 43 min)

Chapters

Astrophel

9:32

Read by Alan Mapstone

A Nympholept

23:01

Read by Lauren Fontaine

On the South Coast

13:22

Read by laurakgibbs

An Autumn Vision

16:39

Read by Lauren Fontaine

A Swimmer's Dream

7:51

Read by laurakgibbs

Grace Darling

9:45

Read by laurakgibbs

Loch Torridon

10:23

Read by Lauren Fontaine

The Palace of Pan

4:04

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

A Year's Carols

5:46

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

England: an Ode

8:00

Read by Alan Mapstone

Eton: an Ode

3:47

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Union

2:10

Read by Alan Mapstone

East to West

1:47

Read by ErinK

Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal

2:31

Read by Alan Mapstone

On the Death of Richard Burton

4:10

Read by Alan Mapstone

Elegy

10:48

Read by laurakgibbs

A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning

8:40

Read by Alan Mapstone

Sunset and Moonrise

1:39

Birthday Ode

3:06

Read by LuMiness

Threnody

3:11

The Ballad of Melicertes

3:20

Read by laurakgibbs

Au Tombeau de Banville

1:15

Read by Sonia

Light: an Epicide

2:57

Threnody

2:36

A Dirge

1:25

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

A Reminicence

1:19

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

Via Dolorosa

9:04

Read by laurakgibbs

In Memory of Aurelio Saffi

7:23

Read by laurakgibbs

The Festival of Beatrice

1:18

Read by Lauren Fontaine

The Monument of Giordano Bruno

2:31

Read by laurakgibbs

Life in Death

1:14

Epicede

4:19

Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott

6:23

Read by laurakgibbs

An Old Saying

1:22

Read by laurakgibbs

A Moss-Rose

1:15

Read by mleigh

To a Cat

3:39

Read by mleigh

Hawthorn Dyke

1:15

Read by Larry Wilson

The Brothers

4:38

Read by LuMiness

Jacobite Song

3:40

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay

7:19

Read by Alan Mapstone

Dedication

4:57

Read by Larry Wilson