English Literature: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

English Literature, credited to Geraldine Hodgson, 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 English Literature by Geraldine Hodgson. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thinking of it as a "dull, horrid thing" which they have to learn in school. I venture to hope that this book may become too dear to throw away when the study is done, and overall I have tried very hard not to write a "stuffy" book. Summary by Beth Thomas and the Introduction

Recording facts

• Recording title: English Literature
• Author credits: Geraldine Hodgson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 12:21:15

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:14
2. 01 - I. The ''Forms'' of Literature — 51:09
3. 02 - II. The Epic, Part 1 — 32:39
4. 03 - II. The Epic, Part 2 — 42:27
5. 04 - III. Lyrics, from Early Days to the Commonwealth, Part 1 — 44:39
6. 05 - III. Lyrics, from Early Days to the Commonwealth, Part 2 — 44:32
7. 06 - IV. Later Lyrics, Part 1 — 44:40
8. 07 - IV. Later Lyrics, Part 2 — 47:44
9. 08 - V. Ballads — 37:52
10. 09 - VI. The Treatise, Part 1 — 46:26
11. 10 - VI. The Treatise, Part 2 — 40:46
12. 11 - VI. The Treatise, Part 3 — 41:12
13. 12 - VI. The Treatise, Part 4 — 40:09
14. 13 - VII. Sonnets — 41:37
15. 14 - VIII. The Drama — 42:06
16. 15 - IX. Essays and Letters — 18:10
17. 16 - X. Odes — 23:43
18. 17 - XI. Satires — 26:50
19. 18 - XII. Elegies — 56:09
20. 19 - XIII. Idylls — 15:11

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