Lyrical Ballads (1798): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lyrical Ballads (1798), credited to William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 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 recording of Lyrical Ballads (1798), by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Read by Verity Kendall. Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". (Additionally, though only the two writers are credited for the works, William's sister Dorothy Wordsworth's diary which held powerful descriptions of everyday surroundings influenced William's poetry immensely) (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lyrical Ballads (1798)
• Author credits: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 2:03:21

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poems

Track guide

1. 00 - Advertisment — 3:36
2. 01 - The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere — 21:28
3. 02 - The Foster Mother's Tale — 4:17
4. 03 - Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite — 3:23
5. 04 - The Nightingale — 6:00
6. 05 - The Female Vagrant — 12:43
7. 06 - Goody Blake and Harry Gill — 4:44
8. 07 - Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed — 1:48
9. 08 - Simon Lee, the old Huntsman — 3:51
10. 09 - Anecdote for Fathers — 2:32
11. 10 - We Are Seven — 2:31
12. 11 - Lines Written In Early Spring — 1:25
13. 12 - The Thorn — 9:08
14. 13 - The Last of the Flock — 3:38
15. 14 - The Dungeon — 1:37
16. 15 - The Mad Mother — 3:46
17. 16 - The Idiot Boy — 16:38
18. 17 - Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening — 2:12
19. 18 - Expostulation and Reply — 1:28
20. 19 - The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject — 1:31
21. 20 - Old Man Travelling — 1:19
22. 21 - The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman — 3:46
23. 22 - The Convict — 2:37
24. 23 - Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey — 7:27

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