Short Poetry Collection 151: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 151, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 151 by Various. Read in English by Winston Tharp; myisha; Karen Joan Kohoutek; Son of the Exiles; Bruce Kachuk; John Burlinson; Shakira Searle; Newgatenovelist; Tony Addison; Leonard Wilson; Thomas A. Copeland This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015. It includes: Advice to a Girl, by Thomas Campion And So Did I, by Isaac Joslyn Cox The City of Dreadful Night, by James Thomson Come-By-Chance, by Andrew Barton ''Banjo'' Paterson A Criticism of Critics, by R. F. Murray Each in His Own Tongue, by William Herbert Carruth The Flying Gang, by Andrew Barton ''Banjo'' Paterson Henry Purcell, by Gerard Manley Hopkins The Kiss, by Thomas Moore Lettice, by Michael Field A Love Song, by William Carlos Williams On Monsieur's Departure, by Queen Elizabeth I The Negro Speaks of Rivers, by Langston Hughes It Is Not Growing Like a Tree, by Ben Jonson An Orator's Complaint, by R. F. Murray Prime, by Amy Lowell Request, by Laurence Hope Sappho to Phaon, by Sappho The Snow Fairy, by Claude McKay Sonnet 53, by William Shakespeare Sonnet VII from Eight Sonnets (Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word), by Edna St. Vincent Millay The Storme, by John Donne The Calme, by John Donne The Story of Mongrel Grey, by Andrew Barton ''Banjo'' Paterson To A Spider, by Samuel Low Youth Renewed, by R. F. Murray Zira: In Captivity, by Laurence Hope This collection includes one long poem (Section 03 - The City of Dreadful Night). In this poem of bleak, existential despair, the narrator wanders the city at night, pondering existence, and describing characters (real and allegorical) whom he meets. (Introduction by reader) This collection includes a pair of two poems (Sections 22-23 - The Storme" and The Calme). In 1597, John Donne voyaged on the famous Islands Expedition, which encountered two seamen's nightmares, a storm and a calm. He described these experiences in poems addressed to his close friend Sir Christopher Brooke. These poems contrast with each other on a grand scale as Donne's antitheses do on the level of couplet and phrase. (Introduction by reader)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 151
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 2:00:30

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry
• long poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - Advice to a Girl — 1:14
2. 02 - And So Did I — 1:02
3. 03 - The City of Dreadful Night — 50:46
4. 04 - Come-By-Chance — 2:46
5. 05 - A Criticism of Critics — 1:00
6. 06 - Each in His Own Tongue — 1:39
7. 07 - The Flying Gang — 2:04
8. 08 - Henry Purcell — 3:01
9. 09 - The Kiss — 1:11
10. 10 - Lettice — 2:01
11. 11 - A Love Song — 1:20
12. 12 - On Monsieur's Departure — 3:12
13. 13 - The Negro Speaks of Rivers — 1:12
14. 14 - It Is Not Growing Like a Tree — 1:01
15. 15 - An Orator's Complaint — 1:37
16. 16 - Prime — 0:42
17. 17 - Request — 0:57
18. 18 - Sappho to Phaon — 16:12
19. 19 - The Snow Fairy — 2:21
20. 20 - Sonnet 53 — 1:47
21. 21 - Sonnet VII from Eight Sonnets (Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word) — 1:26
22. 22 - The Storme — 4:40
23. 23 - The Calme — 3:57
24. 24 - The Story of Mongrel Grey — 5:12

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