The heptalogia / by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.

Contributor:

Thomas B. Mosher (Firm), publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Physical Description:

96 pages : facsimile ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, Me. : T.B. Mosher, 1898.

Contents:

The higher pantheism in a nutshell

The poet and the woodlouse

The person of the house

Last words of a seventh-rate poet

Sonnet for a picture

Nephelidia

Disgust a dramatic monologue.

Notes:

Reprinted from the first edition, the title-page of which is given in facsimile: Specimens of modern poets; the heptalogia; or, The seven against sense: a cap with seven bells. I. The higher pantheism in a nutshell. II. John Jones. III. The poet and the woodlouse. IV. The person of the house (idyl CCCLXVI)--V. Last words of a seventh-rate poet. VI. Sonnet for a picture. VII. Nephelidia. London, Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1880.

The seven parodies severally apply to Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Patmore, Owen Meredith, Rossetti and Swinburne himself.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is from the Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Mosher Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2 in dust wrapper.

Cited in:

Bishop, P.R. Mosher, 147

Hatch, B.L. Mosher, 297

OCLC:

343190