Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems, credited to Edna St. Vincent Millay, 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 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Stefan Von Blon; Josh Kibbey; Nemo; Mike Overby; Farrah; Peter Yearsley; Kathleen Moore; Amy Gramour; Bruce Kachuk; Foon; Eva Davis This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It was perhaps the lead poem in this volume, Renascence, published in 1918 in a literary contest that firs won her wide spread recognition. Her works also included drama and prose, and in 1943 became the second woman to win the Robert Frost Prize for poetry. This volume is divide into three sections of lyric poems, including sonnets, a poetic from of which she was a master. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems
• Author credits: Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 64
• Listed recording duration: 1:55:35

Opening tracks: first 24 of 64

1. 01 - Renascence — 9:49
2. 02 - God’s World — 1:36
3. 03 - Afternoon on a Hill — 1:03
4. 04 - Journey — 2:10
5. 05 - Sorrow — 1:08
6. 06 - Tavern — 1:16
7. 07 - Ashes of Life — 1:12
8. 08 - The Little Ghost — 1:41
9. 09 - Kin to Sorrow — 0:49
10. 10 - Three Songs of Shattering — 1:49
11. 11 - The Shroud — 1:07
12. 12 - The Dream — 1:14
13. 13 - Indifference — 0:52
14. 14 - Witch-wife — 1:12
15. 15 - Blight — 1:33
16. 16 - When the Year Grows Old — 1:19
17. 17 - Sonnets I-VI — 4:59
18. 18 - Section Two, Poems I and II — 0:41
19. 19 - Recuerdo — 1:20
20. 20 - Thursday — 0:40
21. 21 - To the Not Impossible Him — 0:47
22. 22 - The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge — 2:15
23. 23 - Humoresque — 0:36
24. 24 - She is Overheard Singing — 2:02

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