Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods, credited to Carl Sandburg; Walt Whitman; Thomas Wyatt, 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 Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods by Carl Sandburg; Walt Whitman; Thomas Wyatt. Read in English by Amr Ahmed The theme around these poems is how poets expressed their ideas of love as well as the type of language used to convey said love through poetry; it also indirectly highlights how society may perceive love based on how those poets' values may have aligned with/against society during their era. All the poems revolve around a discussion of love through the language they used to describe their feelings of love as well as the images they paint through said language (whether it be expressed through older iterations of the English language or through more modern forms of the language, hence the year differences among each poet selected). (Summary by Amr Ahmed)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods
• Author credits: Carl Sandburg; Walt Whitman; Thomas Wyatt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 15:11

Catalogue topics

• selections - wyatt - whitman - sandburg

Track guide

1. 01 - They Flee From Me — 1:21
2. 02 - Whoso List to Hunt, I know where is an Hind — 1:01
3. 03 - The Heart And Service — 1:16
4. 04 - Farewell Love and All Thy Laws For Ever — 1:02
5. 05 - My Lute Awake — 1:56
6. 06 - The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour — 1:05
7. 07 - MAG — 1:04
8. 08 - Dream Girl — 1:05
9. 09 - To A Stranger — 1:12
10. 10 - When I Heard At the Close of the Day — 1:46
11. 11 - Once I Pass’d Through A Populous City — 0:58
12. 12 - As If a Phantom Caress’d Me — 0:41
13. 13 - Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love! — 0:44

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