Odes and Sonnets: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Odes and Sonnets, credited to Clark Ashton Smith, 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 Odes and Sonnets by Clark Ashton Smith. Read in English by Amy Gramour; Larry Wilson; Anusha Iyer Clark Ashton Smith, nicknamed one of the "big three" of Weird Tales (the famous pulp fiction magazine), was also a romantic-style poet, contributor to the Cthulhu Mythos and a literary friend of H.P Lovecraft. As a poet, he was considered one of the last great West Coast Romantics. Published in 1918, prefaced by his mentor George Sterling and illustrated with Decadent movement-inspired embellishments by Florence Lundborg, this volume contains material republished from his 1912 collection and later included in his 1922 poetry compilation. - Summary by Mary Kay

Recording facts

• Recording title: Odes and Sonnets
• Author credits: Clark Ashton Smith
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 34:31

Catalogue topics

• San Francisco
• pulp fiction
• early poetry
• west coast romantic
• lovecraftian horror
• republished material
• illustrations
• decadence movement

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface, by George Sterling — 2:44
2. 02 - Nero — 5:42
3. 03 - Ode to the Abyss — 3:59
4. 04 - To the Darkness — 2:43
5. 05 - The Retribution — 1:16
6. 06 - Satan Unrepentant — 6:14
7. 07 - Alexandrines — 1:09
8. 08 - Exotique — 1:15
9. 09 - Ave Atque Vale — 1:20
10. 10 - The Ministers of Law — 0:59
11. 11 - The Refuge of Beauty — 1:12
12. 12 - The Crucifixion of Eros — 1:12
13. 13 - The Harlot of the World — 1:02
14. 14 - Belated Love — 1:11
15. 15 - The Medusa of Despair — 1:12
16. 16 - Memnon at Midnight — 1:21

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