Pied Beauty: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 16 original MP3 tracks, 18:49 running time and a link to listen.
Pied Beauty, credited to Gerard Manley Hopkins, 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 16 recordings of Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins.This was the Weekly Poetry project for JUne 3, 2018. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Graham Scott; Ian King; Lee Ann Howlett; Larry Wilson; Maria Kasper; Nedge; Patrick Wallace; Phil Schempf; RajVO; Biblia; Tony Addison and Tomas Peter. In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet "that is they are constructed in proportions resembling those of the sonnet proper, namely 6 + 4 instead of 8 + 6, with however a halfline tailpiece (so that the equation is rather 12/8 + 9/2 = 21/2 + 10 1/2)." - Summary by Wikipedia
Recording facts
- Recording title: Pied Beauty
- Author credits: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 16
- Listed recording duration: 18:49
Catalogue topics
- poetry
- nature
- philosophy
- religion
Track guide
- 01 - Pied Beauty - Read by ALP — 1:08
- 02 - Pied Beauty - Read by BK — 1:25
- 03 - Pied Beauty - Read by DL — 1:06
- 04 - Pied Beauty - Read by EL — 1:24
- 05 - Pied Beauty - Read by GRS — 1:12
- 06 - Pied Beauty - Read by IK — 1:06
- 07 - Pied Beauty - Read by LAH — 1:09
- 08 - Pied Beauty - Read by LCW — 1:00
- 09 - Pied Beauty - Read by MK — 1:11
- 10 - Pied Beauty - Read by ND — 1:07
- 11 - Pied Beauty - Read by PJW — 1:14
- 12 - Pied Beauty - Read by PS — 1:06
- 13 - Pied Beauty - Read by RAJ — 1:08
- 14 - Pied Beauty - Read by RAR — 1:12
- 15 - Pied Beauty - Read by TA — 1:15
- 16 - Pied Beauty - Read by TP — 1:06
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