Responsibilities: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Responsibilities, credited to William Butler Yeats, 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 Responsibilities by William Butler Yeats. Read in English by Kazbek. Responsibilities is a collection of poetry by W.B. Yeats, originally published in 1914 together with a play. The 1916 edition used for this recording combines them with some poems from The Green Helmet and Other Poems, which can be found in the previous installment of the series: Early Ballads and Lyrics The Rose The Wind Among the Reeds In the Seven Woods From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (Summary by Kazbek)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Responsibilities
• Author credits: William Butler Yeats
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 1:04:34

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Introductory Rhymes — 2:14
2. 02 - The Grey Rock — 7:47
3. 03 - The Two Kings — 15:59
4. 04 - To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin Municipal Gallery If It Were Proved The People Wanted Pictures — 2:19
5. 05 - September 1913 — 2:01
6. 06 - To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing — 1:01
7. 07 - Paudeen — 0:58
8. 08 - To A Shade — 2:02
9. 09 - When Helen Lived — 0:47
10. 10 - The Three Beggars — 3:46
11. 11 - The Three Hermits — 1:48
12. 12 - Beggar To Beggar Cried — 1:27
13. 13 - The Well And The Tree — 0:55
14. 14 - Running To Paradise — 1:43
15. 15 - The Hour Before Dawn — 6:39
16. 16 - The Player Queen — 1:16
17. 17 - The Realists — 0:34
18. 18 - I. The Witch — 0:33
19. 19 - II. The Peacock — 0:43
20. 20 - The Mountain Tomb — 1:05
21. 21 - To A Child Dancing In The Wind — 1:32
22. 22 - A Memory Of Youth — 1:26
23. 23 - Fallen Majesty — 0:57
24. 24 - An Appointment — 0:53

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