The Four Swans is the sixth of twelve novels in Poldark, a series of historical novels by Winston Graham.

It was published in 1976, thirty-one years after the first novel in the series.

[1] George Warleggan and Ross Poldark are both elected to Parliament.

Demelza has a lover, Hugh Armitage, who dies.

[2][3] The main events of Book One are the election of George Warleggan to Parliament, the birth of Morwenna's child, the marriage of Dwight and Caroline Enys, Drake Carne becoming a successful blacksmith, Hugh Armitage's courtship of Demelza, Sam Carne falling in love with Emma Tregirls and Ossie Whitworth taking up a sexual relationship with his 14-year-old sister-in-law Rowella.