Astrophel and Other Poems
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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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 |