Poems of Nature: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems of Nature, credited to Henry David Thoreau, 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 of Nature by Henry David Thoreau. Read by Larry Wilson The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of them were printed by him, in whole or in part, among his early contributions to Emerson’s Dial, or in his own two volumes, The Week and Walden, which were all that were issued in his lifetime. Others were given to Mr. Sanborn for publication, by Sophia Thoreau, the year after her brother’s death (several appeared in the Boston Commonwealth in 1863); or have been furnished from time to time by Mr. Blake, his literary executor. Most of Thoreau’s poems were composed early in his life, before his twenty-sixth year, - Summary from Introduction, by Henry S. Salt and Frank B. Sanborn

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems of Nature
• Author credits: Henry David Thoreau
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 1:22:20

Catalogue topics

• nature
• Americana
• transcendentalism
• Walden
• naturalism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. 00 - Introduction — 10:07
2. 01 - Nature — 1:07
3. 02 - Inspiration — 4:07
4. 03 - Sic Vita — 1:53
5. 04 - The Fisher’s Boy — 1:08
6. 05 - The Atlantides — 2:13
7. 06 - The Aurora of Guido — 1:04
8. 07 - Sympathy — 2:58
9. 08 - Friendship — 2:30
10. 09 - True Kindness — 0:31
11. 10 - To the Maiden in the East — 2:31
12. 11 - Free Love — 0:56
13. 12 - Rumors from an Æolian Harp — 0:58
14. 13 - Lines — 1:12
15. 14 - Stanzas — 1:56
16. 15 - A River Scene — 1:39
17. 16 - River Song — 0:48
18. 17 - Some Tumultuous Little Rill — 0:43
19. 18 - Boat Song — 0:37
20. 19 - To My Brother — 1:40
21. 20 - Stanzas — 1:09
22. 21 - The Inward Morning — 1:40
23. 22 - Greece — 0:52
24. 23 - The Funeral Bell — 0:59

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