Insects: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Insects, credited to John Clare, 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 11 recordings of Insects by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 14, 2016. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Jason Amrhein; Jude; Lee Ann Howlett; Lisa Reichert; Maria Kasper; Matthew Datcher; NoelBadrian and wisegirlstudio. John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century, and he is now often considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self". ( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Insects
• Author credits: John Clare
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 19:26

Catalogue topics

• nature
• insects
• fairies

Track guide

1. 01 - Insects - Read by BK — 1:57
2. 02 - Insects - Read by DL — 1:45
3. 03 - Insects - Read by EL — 1:50
4. 04 - Insects - Read by JA — 1:43
5. 05 - Insects - Read by JH — 1:53
6. 06 - Insects - Read by LAH — 1:42
7. 07 - Insects - Read by LAR — 1:47
8. 08 - Insects - Read by MK — 1:56
9. 09 - Insects - Read by MSD — 1:36
10. 10 - Insects - Read by NB — 1:55
11. 11 - Insects - Read by SLW — 1:22

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