Poetry Everywhere: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poetry Everywhere, credited to W. S. Gilbert, 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 7 recordings of Poetry Everywhere by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 6, 2016. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Greg Giordano; Kyle B Jones; Lee Ann Howlett; Maria Kasper and Twinkle. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own comical drawings. His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. According to The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Gilbert's "lyrical facility and his mastery of metre raised the poetical quality of comic opera to a position that it had never reached before and has not reached since" ( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poetry Everywhere
• Author credits: W. S. Gilbert
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 8:42

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• romance
• humofr

Track guide

1. 01 - Poetry Everywhere - Read by BK — 1:18
2. 02 - Poetry Everywhere - Read by DL — 1:12
3. 03 - Poetry Everywhere - Read by GG — 1:16
4. 04 - Poetry Everywhere - Read by KBJ — 1:12
5. 05 - Poetry Everywhere - Read by LAH — 1:06
6. Poetry Everywhere - Read by MK — 1:39
7. 07 - Poetry Everywhere - Read by T — 0:59

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