Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem, credited to Leigh Hunt, 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 Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem by Leigh Hunt. Read in English by Nemo; Larry Wilson This Poem is the result of a sense of duty, which has taken the Author from quieter studies during a great public crisis. He obeyed the impulse with joy, because it took the shape of verse; but with more pain, on some accounts, than he chooses to express. However, he has done what he conceived himself bound to do; and if every zealous lover of his species were to express his feelings in like manner, to the best of his ability, individual opinions, little in themselves, would soon amount to an overwhelming authority, and hasten the day of reason and beneficence. - Summary by Advertisement

Recording facts

• Recording title: Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem
• Author credits: Leigh Hunt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 1:43:29

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• war
• pacifist
• statesmen
• 2018
• 1835

Track guide

1. 01 - I. How Captain Sword marched to War — 3:38
2. 02 - II. How Captain Sword won a Great Victory — 6:26
3. 03 - III. Of the Ball that was given to Captain Sword — 2:36
4. 04 - IV. On What took place on the Field of Battle the Night after the Victory — 9:59
5. 05 - V. How Captain Sword, in Consequence of his Great Victories, became infirm in his Wits — 5:39
6. 06 - VI. Of Captain Pen, and how he fought with Captain Sword — 7:23
7. 07 - Postscript, Containing some Remarks on War and Military Statesmen, part 1 — 36:00
8. 08 - Postscript, Containing some Remarks on War and Military Statesmen, part 2 — 31:48

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