Fortunatus' Song: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Fortunatus' Song, credited to Alfred Austin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fortunatus' Song by Alfred Austin.This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 15, 2018. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; Bill Mosley; CoMo290; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Greg Giordano; Jude; Lee Ann Howlett; Larry Wilson; Patrick Wallace; Phil Schempf; RajVO; Scotty Smith; Tom Daley; Tomas Peter and tovarisch. Not all of the English poets laureate have been the greatest masters of verse. Alfred Austin, who assumed this post after Alfred Lord Tennyson, was one of the less distinguished - if more prolific - late Victorian poets. In modern times, his verse has become celebrated not for its smooth earnestness, but rather for the occasional howlers it contains. A notable example is this song from his pastoral epic Fortunatus the Pessimist, the final couplet of which is a popular favourite in anthologies of bad verse. ( Algy Pug)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Fortunatus' Song
• Author credits: Alfred Austin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 16:33

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• spring
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 01 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by AP — 0:56
2. 02 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by BK — 1:05
3. 03 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by BM — 1:02
4. 04 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by CM — 0:48
5. 05 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by DL — 1:04
6. 06 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by EL — 1:00
7. 07 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by GG — 1:05
8. 08 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by JH — 1:02
9. 09 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by LH — 0:58
10. 10 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by LW — 0:51
11. 11 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by PW — 1:03
12. 12 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by PS — 0:50
13. 13 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by Raj — 0:58
14. 14 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by SWS — 0:59
15. 15 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by TD — 1:00
16. 16 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by TP — 0:58
17. 17 - Fortunatus' Song - Read by VB — 0:54

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