'Astrophel and Other Poems' by A. C. Swinburne. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894. Ashley Library Catalogue, vi, pp. 73-74, 144-145, 174-176, 178-179, 182-185, 188-190; viii, p. 199. Except where expressly stated, the MSS. are not dated, entitled or signed, and the poems were published for the first time in Astrophel and Other Poems, 1894, to which page references apply.
'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'Elegy'; [1891]. Draft of stanzas 1-28, written on both sides of two folio leaves of white wove paper (ff. 1 and 2), and on one side only of a third (f. 3). Watermark 'Hieratica / (a vegetable Parchment) / J. S & Co.'. The MS. is entitled 'Elegy' in Swinburne's h...
'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'England: An Ode'; before May 1893. Draft, heavily revised, written on both sides of two folio leaves of white wove paper. Watermark 'Hieratica / (a vegetable Parchment) J. S & Co.'. The MS. has been entitled 'England' in pencil by another hand. As follows: Par...
'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'The Union'; [1893]. Draft of stanza III, beginning 'Lovelier than thy seas are strong', written on one side only of a scrap (97 x 173mm.) torn, after the stanza was written, from a folio leaf of blue wove paper. No watermark. The final text found in the draft is ide...
'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'Grace Darling'; [1892?]. Fair copy, written on one side only of four large quarto leaves of blue wove paper. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'Grace Darling' in Swinburne's hand, and he has numbered the leaves 1-4. The text found in the fair copy differs by one wor...
'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'The Brothers'; before 1889. Fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of three folio leaves of blue laid paper. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'The Brothers' in Swinburne's hand, and signed 'ACSwinburne'. The text found in the fair copy differs only in ...
'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'East to West'; [1892-1893?]. Fair copy, written on one side only of a large quarto leaf of blue wove paper, conjoined with another leaf to form a single sheet. No watermark. The MS. is entitled 'Ode' in Swinburne's hand, and signed at the end 'A C Swinburne'. The te...
'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning'; 1889. Fair copy, with revisions, written on one side only of two folio leaves of blue laid paper (ff. 5 and 7), and on both sides of a folio leaf of light blue laid paper (f. 6). Watermarks 'Mayfield / Fine' an...
'Astrophel and Other Poems'. 'A Nympholept'; [1881-1891]. Fair copy, written on one side only of nine folio leaves of blue laid paper, and on both sides of another (f. 5). Watermarks 'Mayfield / Fine' and the figure of Britannia alternately (ff. 1-6), and 'E. Towgood / 1881' and the figure of Br...