O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow!: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow!, credited to W. S. Gilbert, 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 O Hollow Hollow Hollow by W.S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 2012. Here is a poem by the "fleshly" poet, Bunthorne, from the opera Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Who better to introduce it than the poet himself: BUNTHORNE. It is a wild, weird, fleshy thing; yet very tender, very yearning, very precious. It is called, "Oh, Hollow! Hollow! Hollow!" PATIENCE Is it a hunting song? BUNTHORNE. A hunting song? No, it is not a hunting song. It is the wail of the poet's heart on discovering that everything is commonplace. To understand it, cling passionately to one another and think of faint lilies. Bunthorne was considered to have been modelled on Oscar Wilde, but more recent reseach has suggested that this claim is not correct. ( Summary by Algy Pug )

Recording facts

• Recording title: O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow!
• Author credits: W. S. Gilbert
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 22:28

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• humor
• nature
• satire

Track guide

1. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by BG — 1:27
2. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by CM — 1:03
3. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by DL — 1:17
4. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by FS — 1:17
5. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by GHS — 1:16
6. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by JLS — 1:16
7. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by KG — 1:13
8. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by KMW — 1:26
9. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by LAH — 1:15
10. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by LLW — 1:32
11. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by MC — 1:17
12. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by MG — 1:36
13. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by NLB — 1:18
14. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by REF — 1:15
15. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by RN — 1:24
16. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by TRM — 1:27
17. O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by XYB — 1:14

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