The Charm: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Charm, credited to Rupert Brooke, 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 10 recordings of The Charm by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 22, 2015. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; Brian Darby; millianna; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Greg Giordano; J. McDougall; Leonard Wilson and Vanessa Garcia. To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. "As to his talk" — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — "he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so often do. He was quite inconsequent and just rippled on, but was always ready to attack a careless thinker. On the other hand, he was extremely tolerant of fools, even bad poets who are the worst kind of fools — or rather the hardest to bear — but that was kindness of heart." Of his personal appearance a good deal has been said. "One who knew him," writing in one of the daily papers, said that "to look at, he was part of the youth of the world. He was one of the handsomest Englishmen of his time. His moods seemed to be merely a disguise for the radiance of an early summer's day." (From Rupert Brooke: A Biographical Note by Margaret Lavington in THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE, (from which this poem is taken.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Charm
• Author credits: Rupert Brooke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 18:40

Catalogue topics

• nature
• romance
• poetry

Track guide

1. 01 - The Charm - Read by ALP — 1:48
2. 02 - The Charm - Read by BK — 2:10
3. 03 - The Charm - Read by BSD — 1:44
4. 04 - The Charm - Read by CAM — 1:49
5. 05 - The Charm - Read by DL — 1:41
6. 06 - The Charm - Read by EL — 1:49
7. 07 - The Charm - Read by GG — 2:10
8. 08 - The Charm - Read by JM — 1:37
9. 09 - The Charm - Read by LLW — 2:01
10. 10 - The Charm - Read by VG — 1:51

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