Shelfmark
MS 232
Author
Title
Songs Before Sunrise and other poems [manuscript]
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1800-1900.
Physical description
[35] leaves ; 55 cm.
Note
Material: sheets of printed paper (450 x 280 mm) glued onto Pompeian red leaves of paper.
Note
Accompanying material: loose ms. notes inserted at the beginning of the volume listing contents -- no date.
Note
Layout: individual poems printed in two columns, numbered 1-64. Titles are capitalised. The stanzas of some poems are numbered. Leaves not foliated or paginated.
Note
Correction: ms. amendments throughout, mostly regarding layout (especially indentation), punctuation and spelling.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: ms. quote from Aeschylus, The Suppliants, line 890 on first printed page ("μᾶ Γᾶ, μᾶ Γᾶ, βοᾶν, φοβερὸν ἀπότρεπε").
Formatted contents note
Contents: Poems in the following order: The litany of nations -- Blessed among women -- Hertha -- Quia multum amavit -- A new year's message -- Christmas antiphones -- Intercession -- The halt before Rome -- The song of the standard -- The eve of revolution -- Siena -- Ode on the insurrection in Candia -- A watch in the night -- Super flumina Babylonis -- Dedication to Joseph Mazzini -- Prelude -- The burden of Austria -- A dead King -- A year after -- Peter's pence from Perugia -- Papal allocution -- Locusta -- Celaeno -- A choice -- The augurs -- The saviour of society -- The moderates -- A counsel -- Apologia -- Before a crucifix -- Tenebrae -- Mater dolorosa.
Summary, etc.
Scope and content: A working (printed) copy of Swinburne's poems with his ms. corrections. Undated.
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 232
Provenance
Presented to ECL in January 1938 by Mrs St C. Baddeley; left to Eddie Baddeley by Alice L. Bird. Given to Alice L. Bird by A.C. Swinburne.
Binding
20th-century half-bound brown paper and plain vellum (spine and corners) over paste/millboard. Vellum decorated with blind rolls; text printed in black at the centre of upper cover: "Swinburne ms. "Songs Before Sunrise."". Textblock trimmed. Lining papers of the same Pompeian red as the rest of the leaves; two flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock, one at the lower end.
Subject
English poetry 19th century.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52701