The Conscientious Deacon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Conscientious Deacon, credited to Vachel Lindsay, 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 The Conscientious Deacon by Vachel Lindsay. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013. Vachel Lindsay described this poem as "a song to be syncopated as you please". According to Wikipedia he is considered the father of modern singing poetry (as he referred to it) in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. His extensive correspondence with the poet Yeats details his intentions to revive the musical qualities in poetry as had been practised by the ancient Greeks. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Conscientious Deacon
• Author credits: Vachel Lindsay
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 19:08

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• conscience
• guilt
• syncopated
• syncopation
• singing poetry

Track guide

1. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by ADM — 1:26
2. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by ALP — 1:28
3. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by AS — 1:30
4. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by CS — 1:20
5. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by DL — 1:15
6. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by EEP — 1:04
7. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by JCM — 1:15
8. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by JM — 1:25
9. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by LAH — 1:17
10. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by LLW — 1:33
11. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by PM — 1:20
12. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by RG — 1:19
13. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by RN — 1:50
14. The Conscientious Deacon - Read by VG — 1:12

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