Old Chants: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Old Chants, credited to Walt Whitman, 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 11 recordings of Old Chants by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.(summary by Wikipedia) The first edition of Leaves of Grass was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman continued to expand the editions until the ninth and final edition of almost 400 poems.(summary by David Lawrence)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Old Chants
• Author credits: Walt Whitman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 24:42

Catalogue topics

• classics (antiquity)
• history
• instruction

Track guide

1. Old Chants - Read by CC — 1:57
2. Old Chants - Read by CD — 2:36
3. Old Chants - Read by CRM — 1:44
4. Old Chants - Read by DL — 2:15
5. Old Chants - Read by EP — 2:44
6. Old Chants - Read by GHS — 2:12
7. Old Chants - Read by JCM — 2:05
8. Old Chants - Read by LLW — 2:19
9. Old Chants - Read by RMG — 2:30
10. Old Chants - Read by RN — 2:28
11. Old Chants - Read by TG — 1:58

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