Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, credited to Oscar Wilde; Robert Baldwin Ross, 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 Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde; Robert Baldwin Ross. Read in English by CJ Baars; NoelBadrian; Algy Pug; Daniel Annear; jenno; Nancy Smay; Anusha Iyer This is a selection of the early poetry of Oscar Wilde, selected by Robert Ross. As he puts it, "It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde’s early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular Ballad of Reading Gaol, also included in this volume. The poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-six years old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have survived the test of NINE editions. Readers will be able to make for themselves the obvious and striking contrasts between these first and last phases of Oscar Wilde’s literary activity. The intervening period was devoted almost entirely to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and criticism." - Summary by Carolin and Robert Ross

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
• Author credits: Oscar Wilde; Robert Baldwin Ross
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 1:38:02

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• London
• Ireland

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol, I — 5:33
2. 02 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol, II — 4:45
3. 03 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol, III — 12:22
4. 04 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol, IV — 7:45
5. 05 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol, V — 6:02
6. 06 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol, VI — 1:20
7. 07 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version), I — 4:46
8. 08 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version), II — 2:24
9. 09 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version), III — 6:47
10. 10 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version), IV — 5:58
11. 11 - Ave Imperatrix — 6:24
12. 12 - To My Wife (with a copy of my poems) — 0:39
13. 13 - Magdalen Walks — 2:00
14. 14 - Theocritus - a Villanelle — 0:58
15. 15 - Greece — 1:00
16. 16 - Portia (to Ellen Terry) — 1:08
17. 17 - Fabien Dei Franchi (to Henry Irving) — 1:15
18. 18 - Phèdre (to Sarah Bernhardt) — 1:09
19. 19 - On Hearing The Dies Iræ Sung In The Sistine Chapel — 1:10
20. 20 - Ave Maria Gratia Plena — 1:11
21. 21 - Libertatis Sacra Fames — 1:11
22. 22 - Roses and Rue — 3:05
23. 23 - From ‘The Garden of Eros’ — 6:17
24. 24 - The Harlot’s House — 1:58

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