Title:  The Heptalogia

Author:  Algernon Charles Swinburne

Release Date:  April 19, 2006 [EBook #18210]

Language:  English

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THE HEPTALOGIA

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Taken from the collected poetical works
of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol.  V

SWINBURNE’S POETICAL WORKS

I. POEMS AND BALLADS (First Series).

II.  Songs before Sunrise, and songs of two Nations.

III.  Poems and ballads (Second and Third Series), and songs of the
       SPRINGTIDES.

IV.  TRISTRAM of LYONESSE, the tale of BALEN, ATALANTA in CALYDON,
       Erechtheus.

V. Studies in song, A century of ROUNDELS, sonnets on English dramatic
       poets, the Heptalogia, etc.

VI.  A midsummer Holiday, ASTROPHEL, A Channel passage and other poems.

LONDON:  WILLIAM HEINEMANN

THE HEPTALOGIA

By

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1917

LONDON:  WILLIAM HEINEMANN

First printed (Chatto), 1904
Reprinted 1904, ’09, ’10, ’12
(Heinemann), 1917

London:  William Heinemann, 1917

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THE HEPTALOGIA

THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL 373

JOHN JONES’S WIFE 375

THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE 396

THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE 400

LAST WORDS OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET 406

SONNET FOR A PICTURE 421

NEPHELIDIA 422

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SPECIMENS OF MODERN POETS

THE HEPTALOGIA

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