Sonnets: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sonnets, credited to William Lisle Bowles, 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 Sonnets by William Lisle Bowles. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. 30 sonnets by the English poet and cleric the Reverend William Lisle Bowles "written chiefly during various journeys". Published in 1789 they were received with favour, not only by the general public, but by other poets such as Coleridge and Wordsworth. The text includes other sonnets, but these were most suitable for the project. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sonnets
• Author credits: William Lisle Bowles
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 42:29

Catalogue topics

• sonnets

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland — 1:59
2. 02 - At Bamborough Castle — 1:37
3. 03 - To the River Wensbeck — 1:36
4. 04 - To the River Tweed — 1:14
5. 05 - Evening — 1:21
6. 06 - On Leaving a Village in Scotland — 1:33
7. 07 - To the River Itchen — 1:38
8. 08 - O Poverty! — 1:19
9. 09 - At Dover Cliffs — 1:36
10. 10 - At Ostend, Landing — 1:25
11. 11 - At Ostend — 1:31
12. 12 - On the River Rhine — 1:39
13. 13 - At a Convent — 1:19
14. 14 - O Time! — 1:09
15. 15 - Languid, and Sad — 1:12
16. 16 - On a Distant View of England — 1:12
17. 17 - To the River Cherwell — 1:41
18. 18 - As one who Long by Wasting Sickness Worn — 1:10
19. 19 - Go Then — 1:24
20. 20 - There is Strange Musick — 1:26
21. 21 - Whose was that Gentle Voice — 1:27
22. 22 - As o'er these Hills — 1:09
23. 23 - Netley Abbey — 1:22
24. 24 - O Harmony! — 1:08

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