Poems (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems (Version 2), credited to Wilfred Owen, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Poems, Version 2 by Wilfred Owen. Read in English by Alan Mapstone The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This book, published in 1920 and edited by his friend Siegfried Sassoon, contains his best known poems. The poems were not well received initially because they did not fit with the mood of triumphalism after the war. But they have latterly come to be considered one of the most significant collections of war poetry of the 20th century both for their alternative view of war ("the pity of war") and for their technical innovation. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems (Version 2)
• Author credits: Wilfred Owen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 1:05:41

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• English
• WWI
• First World War

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 1:40
2. 01 - Strange Meeting — 3:50
3. 02 - Greater Love — 1:55
4. 03 - Apologia pro poemate Meo — 3:06
5. 04 - The Show — 2:51
6. 05 - Mental Cases — 2:38
7. 06 - Parable of the Old Men and the Young — 1:32
8. 07 - Arms and the Boy — 1:20
9. 08 - Anthem for Doomed Youth — 1:29
10. 09 - The Send-off — 1:37
11. 10 - Insensibility — 3:55
12. 11 - Dulce et Decorum Est — 2:33
13. 12 - The Sentry — 3:25
14. 13 - The Dead-Beat — 1:54
15. 14 - Exposure — 4:08
16. 15 - Spring Offensive — 4:09
17. 16 - The Chances — 1:39
18. 17 - S. I. W. — 3:27
19. 18 - Futility — 1:11
20. 19 - Smile, Smile, Smile — 2:22
21. 20 - Conscious — 1:31
22. 21 - A Terre — 5:38
23. 22 - Wild with all Regrets — 3:44
24. 23 - Disabled — 4:08

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