Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, credited to Emily Dickinson, 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 Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. Read by Becky Miller. Emily Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential poets of 19th century America. A very private poet with a very quiet and reclusive life, her poetry was published posthumously and immediately found a wide audience. While she echoed the romantic natural themes of her times, her style was much more free and irregular, causing many to criticize her and editors to "correct" her. In the early 20th century, when poetic style had become much looser, new audiences learned to appreciate her work. Here collected are many of her most contemplative, most rebellious, and "dark" works, expressing her frustrations with the behavioral confines of her times, and the confines of being human and unknowing of eternity. (Summary by Becky Miller)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
• Author credits: Emily Dickinson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 21:00

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• dickinson

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 The Soul Selects Her Own Society — 0:59
2. 02 After Great Pain — 1:02
3. 03 Hope is the Thing with Feathers — 0:50
4. 04 I Never Hear the Word Escape — 0:36
5. 05 There is No Frigate Like a Book — 0:38
6. 06 Because I Could Not Stop for Death — 1:13
7. 07 Of All The Sounds Dispatched Abroad — 1:13
8. 08 Success is Counted Sweetest — 0:43
9. 09 If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking — 0:35
10. 10 To Fight Aloud — 0:46
11. 11 Pain Has an Element of Blank — 0:37
12. 12 I Can Wade Grief — 0:51
13. 13 For Each Ecstatic Instant — 0:39
14. 14 I Meant To Have But Modest Needs — 1:30
15. 15 A Thought Went Up My Mind — 0:49
16. 16 Is Heaven a Physician — 0:34
17. 17 A Poor Torn Heart — 0:58
18. 18 I Should Have Been Too Glad — 1:22
19. 19 Each Life Converges — 1:02
20. 20 My Life Closed Twice — 0:42
21. 21 I Felt a Cleavage in my Mind — 0:45
22. 22 If Recollecting Were Forgetting — 0:39
23. 23 The Brain is Wider Than the Sky — 0:58
24. 24 Softened by Time's Consummate Plush — 0:50

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.