Sonnet 18: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sonnet 18, credited to William Shakespeare, 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 volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 17, 2016. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; Eunah Choi; David Lawrence; Garth Burton; Greg Giordano; Ian King; Lee Ann Howlett; Leonard Wilson; Maria Kasper; NoelBadrian; Phil Schempf; Tony Addison and Tomas Peter. A LibriVox Weekly Poetry tribute to William Shakespeare marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in April 2016. Two of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130, have completely contradict each-other and offer differing views on love and love poetry. Whereas Sonnet 18 is the nice cute cliched one, Sonnet 130 provides a more realistic, almost rhetorical view of love and both would be incredibly popular. This project features Sonnet 18. (Summary by catrose)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sonnet 18
• Author credits: William Shakespeare
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 18:09

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• romance
• sonnet
• tribute

Track guide

1. 01 - Sonnet 18 - Read by ALP — 1:05
2. 02 - Sonnet 18 - Read by BK — 1:20
3. 03 - Sonnet 18 - Read by CEA — 1:29
4. 04 - Sonnet 18 - Read by DL — 1:15
5. 05 - Sonnet 18 - Read by GB — 1:16
6. 06 - Sonnet 18 - Read by GG — 1:27
7. 07 - Sonnet 18 - Read by IK — 1:14
8. 08 - Sonnet 18 - Read by LAH — 1:17
9. 09 - Sonnet 18 - Read by LLW — 1:21
10. 10 - Sonnet 18 - Read by MK — 1:33
11. 11 - Sonnet 18 - Read by NB — 1:24
12. 12 - Sonnet 18 - Read by PS — 1:08
13. 13 - Sonnet 18 - Read by TA — 1:12
14. 14 - Sonnet 18 - Read by TP — 1:08

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