Ravenna and Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ravenna and Other Poems, credited to Oscar Wilde, 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 Ravenna and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde. Read in English by Alan Mapstone. Oscar Wilde's poem Ravenna won the prestigious Newdigate Prize for Poetry at Oxford University. It was recited by the author in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on June 26th 1878. The poem describes Wilde's reaction to his first visit to Ravenna in Italy. Many of the other poems in this recording also reflect Wilde's great love of Italian life and culture. Some also show his admiration for the English Romantic Poets, Keats, Shelley and Byron. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ravenna and Other Poems
• Author credits: Oscar Wilde
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 1:21:37

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Dedication: To My Wife — 1:26
2. 01 - Ravenna — 28:04
3. 02 - Ave Imperatrix — 8:17
4. 03 - To Milton — 1:27
5. 04 - Louis Napoleon — 1:38
6. 05 - Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria — 1:32
7. 06 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy — 1:29
8. 07 - San Miniato — 1:23
9. 08 - Italia — 1:34
10. 09 - Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa — 1:33
11. 10 - Rome Unvisited — 4:07
12. 11 - Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel — 1:31
13. 12 - Easter Day — 1:31
14. 13 - E Tenebris — 1:31
15. 14 - Madonna Mia — 1:27
16. 15 - Endymion — 3:01
17. 16 - Magdalen Walks — 2:12
18. 17 - Theocritus, a Villanelle — 1:28
19. 18 - The Grave of Keats — 1:30
20. 19 - The Grave of Shelley — 1:29
21. 20 - By the Arno — 1:53
22. 21 - Phèdre — 1:29
23. 22 - Sonnets written at the Lyceum Theatre (I.Portia; II.Queen Henrietta Maria; III.Camma) — 4:16
24. 23 - At Verona — 1:30

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