Athenaeum Souvenir: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Athenaeum Souvenir, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Athenaeum Souvenir by Various. Read in English by Phil Benson The Manchester Athenaeum was founded in 1837 as a society for the "advancement and diffusion of knowledge". This short collection of poems was published to raise money for the society's annual bazaar. The collection included contributions from 'marquee' poets of the time, including Charles Swain and Agnes Strickland, and Thomas Hood provided an entertaining preface on poetry as food for the mind. It also found space for several of the local school of poets, who were determined to show the world that Manchester was not just a centre of industry and trade. In addition to poems by Ner Gardiner, John Bolton Rogerson, Isabella Varley (later Mrs. Linnaeus Banks, author of 'The Manchester Man'), Samuel Bamford, Isabella Caulton and John Critchley Prince, the collection includes Ann Hawkshaw's first published poem and a rare published piece by Jamaican-born Robert Rose, Manchester's 'bard of colour'. - Summary by Phil Benson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Athenaeum Souvenir
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 1:31:28

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 00 - Preface, Contents and Letter from Thomas Hood — 15:58
2. 01 - The Disappointed by Charles Swain — 1:40
3. 02 - A Ghost Story by P. J. Bailey — 8:05
4. 03 - The Infant by Agnes Strickland — 1:20
5. 04 - An English Watering Place by J. Westland Marston — 3:24
6. 05 - Palaces by Mary Howitt — 3:41
7. 06 - Man's Tomb by Ner Gardiner — 1:22
8. 07 - Song by Charles Swain — 1:30
9. 08 - The Seaman's Funeral by J. E. Carpenter — 1:34
10. 09 - The Guardian Angel by John Bolton Rogerson — 2:58
11. 10 - Stanzas for Music by C. B. Greatrex, Jun. — 1:33
12. 11 - The Atheist and the Thistles by H. W. Wynn — 3:50
13. 12 - The Release by Isabella Varley — 2:13
14. 13 - Ambition by Thomas Smelt — 1:16
15. 14 - Sorrow by Ner Gardiner — 1:15
16. 15 - The Way-Side Spring by J. E. Carpenter — 1:33
17. 16 - Wit and Wisdom by Charles Swain — 2:39
18. 17 - The Past by Thomas Smelt — 2:16
19. 18 - The Bard and his Pupil by Samuel Bamford — 6:19
20. 19 - Life's Dull Reality by Ann Hawkshaw — 2:56
21. 20 - A Summer Evening in July by George Richardson — 3:22
22. 21 - Remember Me by Isabella Caulton — 2:01
23. 22 - The China Tea Cup by Eliza S. Craven Green — 2:44
24. 23 - War by John Bolton Rogerson — 1:17

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