New Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

New Poems, credited to D. H. Lawrence, 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 New Poems by D. H. Lawrence. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. D. H. Lawrence's poetry changed stylistically during the First World War when, influenced by Walt Whitman, he began to write free verse. He set forth his manifesto for much of his later verse in the introduction to New Poems. "We can get rid of the stereotyped movements and the old hackneyed associations of sound or sense. We can break down those artificial conduits and canals through which we do so love to force our utterance. We can break the stiff neck of habit, but we cannot positively prescribe any motion, any rhythm." (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: New Poems
• Author credits: D. H. Lawrence
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 42
• Combined MP3 track duration: 1:15:47

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 42

1. 01 - Apprehension — 1:30
2. 02 - Coming Awake — 0:49
3. 03 - From a College Window — 1:02
4. 04 - Flapper — 0:58
5. 05 - Birdcage Walk — 0:50
6. 06 - Letter from Town: The Almond Tree — 1:54
7. 07 - Flat Suburbs, S.W., In the Morning — 1:08
8. 08 - Thief in the Night — 0:44
9. 09 - Letter from Town: On a Grey Evening in March — 2:14
10. 10 - Suburbs on a Hazy Day — 1:08
11. 11 - Hyde Park at Night, Before the War — 2:04
12. 12 - Gipsy — 0:41
13. 13 - Two-Fold — 0:34
14. 14 - Under the Oak — 2:07
15. 15 - Sigh No More — 1:45
16. 16 - Love Storm — 2:01
17. 17 - Parliarment Hill in the Evening — 0:58
18. 18 - Piccadilly Circus at Night — 1:45
19. 19 - Tarantella — 1:26
20. 20 - In Church — 0:57
21. 21 - Piano — 1:14
22. 22 - Enbankment at Night, Before the War (Charity) — 1:58
23. 23 - Phantasmagoria — 1:50
24. 24 - Next Morning — 1:54

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