Songs for the Millions, and other poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Songs for the Millions, and other poems, credited to Benjamin Stott, 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 Songs for the Millions, and other poems by Benjamin Stott. Read in English by Phil Benson Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the Millions, a suite of seventeen short poems in which Stott experimented with a variety of forms, was his best known work. Poverty and famine, injustice and the brutality of the police and their spies, solidarity and resistance are his themes. A devout militant Christian, Stott saved some of his most powerful words for the clergy who urged the working masses to wait patiently in poverty for their reward in the next world. The miscellaneous poems that complete this collection, include Stott's long ode to the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity, which remains the largest fraternal organization of its kind in the United Kingdom. (Phil Benson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Songs for the Millions, and other poems
• Author credits: Benjamin Stott
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:50:18

Catalogue topics

• working class

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface and memoir — 5:25
2. 01 - Songs of the millions — 37:28
3. 02 - Miscellaneous poems — 34:24
4. 03 - Miscellaneous poems, continued — 33:01

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