Astrophel and Other Poems
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 |
| A Nympholept | 23:01 |
| On the South Coast | 13:22 |
| An Autumn Vision | 16:39 |
| A Swimmer's Dream | 7:51 |
| Grace Darling | 9:45 |
| Loch Torridon | 10:23 |
| The Palace of Pan | 4:04 |
| A Year's Carols | 5:46 |
| England: an Ode | 8:00 |
| Eton: an Ode | 3:47 |
| The Union | 2:10 |
| East to West | 1:47 |
| Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal | 2:31 |
| On the Death of Richard Burton | 4:10 |
| Elegy | 10:48 |
| A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning | 8:40 |
| Sunset and Moonrise | 1:39 |
| Birthday Ode | 3:06 |
| Threnody | 3:11 |
| The Ballad of Melicertes | 3:20 |
| Au Tombeau de Banville | 1:15 |
| Light: an Epicide | 2:57 |
| Threnody | 2:36 |
| A Dirge | 1:25 |
| A Reminicence | 1:19 |
| Via Dolorosa | 9:04 |
| In Memory of Aurelio Saffi | 7:23 |
| The Festival of Beatrice | 1:18 |
| The Monument of Giordano Bruno | 2:31 |
| Life in Death | 1:14 |
| Epicede | 4:19 |
| Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott | 6:23 |
| An Old Saying | 1:22 |
| A Moss-Rose | 1:15 |
| To a Cat | 3:39 |
| Hawthorn Dyke | 1:15 |
| The Brothers | 4:38 |
| Jacobite Song | 3:40 |
| The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay | 7:19 |
| Dedication | 4:57 |