Sonnets: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sonnets, credited to James Russell Lowell, 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 James Russell Lowell. Read in English by Matthew Datcher; Ross Klatte; Sonia; Ryan Finch James Russell Lowell's extensive poetic work also includes a series of Sonnets. Some of those have already been included in the volumes Early Poems and Miscellaneous Poems, but 27 of his Sonnets are collected in this volume. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sonnets
• Author credits: James Russell Lowell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 33:01

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• sonnets
• lowell
• Boston
• poet
• massachussetts

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - Sonnet I. To A.C.L. — 1:02
2. 02 - Sonnet II — 1:14
3. 03 - Sonnet III — 1:17
4. 04 - Sonnet IV — 1:02
5. 05 - Sonnet V. To the Spirit of Keats — 1:33
6. 06 - Sonnet VI — 1:35
7. 07 - Sonnet VII — 1:28
8. 08 - Sonnet VIII. To M.W. on her Birthday — 1:13
9. 09 - Sonnet IX — 1:16
10. 10 - Sonnet X — 1:11
11. 11 - Sonnet XI — 1:09
12. 12 - Sonnet XII. Sub Pondere Crescit — 1:04
13. 13 - Sonnet XIII — 1:16
14. 14 - Sonnet XIV. On Reading Wordsworth's Sonnets in Defence of Capital Punishment — 1:09
15. 15 - Sonnet XV. The Same Continued — 1:04
16. 16 - Sonnet XVI. The Same Continued — 1:03
17. 17 - Sonnet XVII. The Same Continued — 1:27
18. 18 - Sonnet XVIII. The Same Continued — 1:09
19. 19 - Sonnet XIX. The Same Concluded — 1:03
20. 20 - Sonnet XX. To M.O.S. — 1:14
21. 21 - Sonnet XXI — 1:19
22. 22 - Sonnet XXII. In Absence — 1:07
23. 23 - Sonnet XXIII. Wendell Phillips — 1:25
24. 24 - Sonnet XXIV. The Street — 1:33

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