Poems and Ballads: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems and Ballads, credited to Heinrich Heine, 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 Poems and Ballads by Heinrich Heine. (Translated by Emma Lazarus.) Read in English by Eva Davis; Algy Pug; Newgatenovelist; Rhys Harrison; Crln Yldz Ksr; Nemo; Tomas Peter This is a volume of poetry by Heinrich Heine, translated by Emma Lazarus. The poetry of Heinrich Heine is still widely read today within Germany, and this fine translation by Emma Lazarus has added to a greater readership in English-speaking countries at the time it was published (1881). - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems and Ballads
• Author credits: Heinrich Heine
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 3:41:29

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• song
• ballad
• Germany
• poet
• prussia
• 1881

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Biographical Sketch — 24:19
2. 02 - Sonnets to my Mother, B. Heine, née Von Geldern — 2:10
3. 03 - The Sphinx — 3:07
4. 04 - Donna Clara — 4:30
5. 05 - Don Ramiro — 7:35
6. 06 - Tannhäuser — 8:43
7. 07 - In the Underworld — 5:58
8. 08 - The Vale of Tears — 1:36
9. 09 - Solomon — 1:16
10. 10 - Morphine — 1:13
11. 11 - Song — 0:59
12. 12 - Song — 2:27
13. 13 - Song — 1:04
14. 14 - Homeward Bound, part 1 — 9:00
15. 15 - Homeward Bound, part 2 — 7:44
16. 16 - Homeward Bound, part 3 — 7:27
17. 17 - Homeward Bound, part 4 — 7:25
18. 18 - Homeward Bound, part 5 — 7:06
19. 19 - Homeward Bound, part 6 — 5:44
20. 20 - Homeward Bound, part 7 — 8:16
21. 21 - Homeward Bound, part 8 — 5:46
22. 22 - Homeward Bound, part 9 — 6:15
23. 23 - Songs to Seraphine — 9:59
24. 24 - To Angelique — 6:58

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