Aspects Of Love - An Anthology: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Aspects Of Love - An Anthology, credited to William Shakespeare; Walt Whitman; Plato (Πλάτων); John Donne; Sappho, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Aspects Of Love - An Anthology by William Shakespeare; Walt Whitman; Plato (Πλάτων); John Donne; Sappho. (Translated by H. De Vere Stacpoole; Benjamin Jowett; John Myers O'Hara.) Read in English by Tony Addison Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love - though one of the "poets" represented here is better known, even than as a dramatist, as the philosopher, Plato. His Symposium heads off this set of erotic explorations. In The Symposium's philosophic play, he depicts a scene of men cosing together over dinner, each describing what he finds in his experience of love. I have followed this pattern in the choice of works for this anthology - in a similar manner, each of these works deals in a radically different way with the discovery of love. Whether philandering or married, heterosexual, lesbian or gay, under cover of friendship or as flagrant delight, from Plato through Donne, Whitman, Shakespeare or Sappho. we will not cease from exploration till we reach at last, as The Symposium does, a vision of the union of love as a discovery of the Divine. Surely there must be something here for everyone. - Summary by Tony Addison

Recording facts

• Recording title: Aspects Of Love - An Anthology
• Author credits: William Shakespeare; Walt Whitman; Plato (Πλάτων); John Donne; Sappho
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 9:05:06

Catalogue topics

• anthology
• exploration of love
• cross sexuality

Track guide

1. 01 - Plato - Symposium - One — 41:49
2. 02 - Plato - Symposium - Two — 27:27
3. 03 - Plato - Symposium - Three — 17:12
4. 04 - Plato - Symposium - Four — 55:31
5. 05 - Plato - Symposium - Five — 33:39
6. 06 - Shakespeare Sonnets - 1-20 — 21:00
7. 07 - Shakespeare Sonnets - 21-40 — 20:15
8. 08 - Shakespeare Sonnets - 41-60 — 19:08
9. 09 - Shakespeare Sonnets - 61-80 — 20:03
10. 10 - Shakespeare Sonnets - 81-100 — 19:30
11. 11 - Shakespeare Sonnets - 101-120 — 18:21
12. 12 - Shakespeare Sonnets - 121-140 — 19:44
13. 13 - Shakespeare Sonnets - 140-154 — 14:22
14. 14 - John Donne - Songs and Sonets - One — 29:04
15. 15 - John Donne - Songs and Sonets - Two — 32:11
16. 16 - John Donne - Songs and Sonets - Three — 29:49
17. 17 - John Donne - Songs and Sonets - Four — 17:50
18. 18 - Sappho - Erotika, Girlfriends, Phaon — 42:09
19. 19 - Walt Whitman - Calamus — 45:14
20. 20 - King James Bible- Song of Solomon — 20:48

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