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Astrophel and Other Poems

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)

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)

Genre(s): Lyric

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Astrophel	Alan Mapstone	00:09:32
Play 02	A Nympholept	Lauren Fontaine	00:23:01
Play 03	On the South Coast	laurakgibbs	00:13:22
Play 04	An Autumn Vision	Lauren Fontaine	00:16:39
Play 05	A Swimmer's Dream	laurakgibbs	00:07:51
Play 06	Grace Darling	laurakgibbs	00:09:45
Play 07	Loch Torridon	Lauren Fontaine	00:10:23
Play 08	The Palace of Pan	Agnes Robert Behr	00:04:04
Play 09	A Year's Carols	Agnes Robert Behr	00:05:46
Play 10	England: an Ode	Alan Mapstone	00:08:00
Play 11	Eton: an Ode	Alan Mapstone	00:03:47
Play 12	The Union	Alan Mapstone	00:02:10
Play 13	East to West	ErinK	00:01:47
Play 14	Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal	Alan Mapstone	00:02:31
Play 15	On the Death of Richard Burton	Alan Mapstone	00:04:10
Play 16	Elegy	laurakgibbs	00:10:48
Play 17	A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning	Alan Mapstone	00:08:40
Play 18	Sunset and Moonrise	Larry Wilson	00:01:39
Play 19	Birthday Ode	LuMiness	00:03:06
Play 20	Threnody	Larry Wilson	00:03:11
Play 21	The Ballad of Melicertes	laurakgibbs	00:03:20
Play 22	Au Tombeau de Banville	Sonia	00:01:15
Play 23	Light: an Epicide	Larry Wilson	00:02:57
Play 24	Threnody	Larry Wilson	00:02:36
Play 25	A Dirge	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:25
Play 26	A Reminicence	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:19
Play 27	Via Dolorosa	laurakgibbs	00:09:04
Play 28	In Memory of Aurelio Saffi	laurakgibbs	00:07:23
Play 29	The Festival of Beatrice	Lauren Fontaine	00:01:18
Play 30	The Monument of Giordano Bruno	laurakgibbs	00:02:31
Play 31	Life in Death	Larry Wilson	00:01:14
Play 32	Epicede	Larry Wilson	00:04:19
Play 33	Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott	laurakgibbs	00:06:23
Play 34	An Old Saying	laurakgibbs	00:01:22
Play 35	A Moss-Rose	mleigh	00:01:15
Play 36	To a Cat	mleigh	00:03:39
Play 37	Hawthorn Dyke	Larry Wilson	00:01:15
Play 38	The Brothers	LuMiness	00:04:38
Play 39	Jacobite Song	Alan Mapstone	00:03:40
Play 40	The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay	Alan Mapstone	00:07:19
Play 41	Dedication	Larry Wilson	00:04:57

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