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SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. An extensive collection of autograph poetical manuscripts, including manuscripts for works published in Poems and Ballads (1866), Poems and Ballads. Second Series (1878), Heptalogia (1880), Astophel (1894), A Century of Roundels (1883), Songs of Two Nations (1875), Midsummer Holiday (1884), Locrine, A Tragedy (1887), ALL WORKING MANUSCRIPTS OR DRAFTS, some with heavy revisons and emendations, one poem, "The Year of the Rose," 4 pp., in a secretary's hand, corrected and signed by Swinburne. 160 pages, folio and 4to, written on approximately 135 leaves of blue, white and lined paper, most tipped to larger sheets, bound in red morocco gilt, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, joints worn, front cover detached, protective cloth case . PARTIAL CONTENTS From Poems and Ballads (1866): "Hymn of Proserpine," 3pp. , labeled in pencil "First draft of a rejected portion..."; From Poems and Ballads. Second Series (1878): "Prelude" ("Between the green bud and the red..."), 7pp. , "Sublustre Luce" (published as "Tenebrae"), 3pp. , "Mater Dolorosa," 3pp., "The Complaint of the Fair Amouress," 3pp. , "Ode: Le Tombeau de Théophìle Gautier," 2pp. , "Nocturne" ("Le nouit ecoute..."), 2pp. , "Sonnet," in French, 1p. , "Spring in Tuscany," 3pp. , "Child's Song," 1/2 p. , "The Ballads of the Lords of Old Time," 2pp. , "A Double Ballad of Good Counsel," 2pp. , "Epistle in Form of a Ballad to His Friends," 1p. , "The Epitaph in Form a Ballad which Villon Made for Himself...," 2pp. , "Ballad Written for a Bridegroom," 1p. , "Grand Chorus of Birds, From Aristophanes," 6pp. , "Erectheus," 9pp. , "Before A Crucifix," 4pp. , "Prolonged Sonnet to Ansinous," 1p. , "Mater Triumphalis," 6pp. , "The Pilgrims," 3pp. , "Genesis," 3pp. , "Triads," 2pp. , "Ballad of the Women of Paris," 1p. , "In the Rosery" (published as "The Year of Roses"), 2pp., later draft in another hand, 4pp., annotated and signed by Swinburne , "The Dispute of the Soul and Body of Fran c ois Villon," 2pp. , "Choriambics," 1p. , "Six Years Old to H.W.M.," 2pp. , "Halt Before Rome," 5pp. , "Dedication 1878" (to Burne-Jones and William Morris , 2pp. , "Studies in Song: Song for the Centenary Walter Savage Landor (1875)," 2pp., incomplete? ; From other collections: "Comparisons," 2pp. , "Locusta," 4pp. ,"Dedication. To Alice Swinburne" [from Locrine ], 2pp. , "To France" (unpublished?), 3pp. , "A Ballad at Parting," 2pp. , "The Year of the Rose," 4pp. , "The Tulip," 2pp. , a portion of a verse drama, 5pp. .