Astrophel and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

Astrophel and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne audiobook.

Genre: poetry

Astrophel and Other Poems is a late-Victorian collection in which Algernon Charles Swinburne turns his lush, musical lyricism toward memory, landscape, and the lives of writers and heroes who shaped the English imagination. The opening sequence, 'Astrophel', is sparked by reading Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia in the garden of an old manor, and it sets the tone for a book that moves between private reverie and public address. Across sea-coast meditations and Highland scenes, Swinburne evokes wind, surf, heather, and starlight with a painterly intensity, then pivots into ceremonial pieces that test how poetry can speak for a nation or a school, as in the ringing odes to England and Eton. Threaded through the volume are elegiac tributes and formal laments for prominent figures, including poems on the deaths of Richard Burton and Robert Browning, as well as a tombeau for Banville, where admiration meets grief and artistry becomes an act of remembrance. Myth and pagan afterglow also surface in visionary passages and ballad forms, giving the collection a restless sweep from the intimate to the monumental.

For ad-free listening try our premium subscription

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:09:32) Chapter 02

(00:32:33) Chapter 03

(00:45:55) Chapter 04

(01:02:34) Chapter 05

(01:10:25) Chapter 06

(01:20:10) Chapter 07

(01:30:33) Chapter 08

(01:34:37) Chapter 09

(01:40:23) Chapter 10

(01:48:23) Chapter 11

(01:52:10) Chapter 12

(01:54:20) Chapter 13

(01:56:07) Chapter 14

(01:58:38) Chapter 15

(02:02:48) Chapter 16

(02:13:36) Chapter 17

(02:22:16) Chapter 18

(02:23:55) Chapter 19

(02:27:01) Chapter 20

(02:30:12) Chapter 21

(02:33:32) Chapter 22

(02:34:47) Chapter 23

(02:37:44) Chapter 24

(02:40:20) Chapter 25

(02:41:45) Chapter 26

(02:43:04) Chapter 27

(02:52:08) Chapter 28

(02:59:31) Chapter 29

(03:00:49) Chapter 30

(03:03:20) Chapter 31

(03:04:34) Chapter 32

(03:08:53) Chapter 33

(03:15:16) Chapter 34

(03:16:38) Chapter 35

(03:17:53) Chapter 36

(03:21:32) Chapter 37

(03:22:47) Chapter 38

(03:27:25) Chapter 39

(03:31:05) Chapter 40

(03:38:24) Chapter 41

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices