The Culprit Fay and Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, credited to Joseph Rodman Drake, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Culprit Fay and Other Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake. A short collection, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, was published posthumously by his daughter in 1835. His best-known poems are the long title-poem of that collection and the patriotic "The American Flag" which was set as a cantata for two soloists, choir and orchestra by the Czech composer Antonin Dvo?ák in 1892-93, as his Op. 102. In the early part of the 19th Century both Drake and his friend Halleck were widely hailed by Americans as among the leading literary personalities and talents produced by this country. That they had been leading lights in the New York area was true, but the glimmer for both could not really hold. It was finally diminished by Edgar Allan Poe when he wrote a serious study of the two poets called The Halleck - Rodman Review. Looking at The Culprit Fay by Drake, Poe showed that the imagery many marveled at was quite second-rate and ordinary. In fact, he briefly invented new lines to show how easily it could be done. The reputations of both Drake and Halleck never recovered. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Culprit Fay and Other Poems
• Author credits: Joseph Rodman Drake
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 1:33:49

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• flags
• fairies
• friends
• patriotism

Track guide

1. 00 - Frontispiece - Dedication — 0:48
2. 01 - The Culprit Fay — 33:29
3. 02 - To a Friend — 9:12
4. 03 - Leon — 21:16
5. 04 - Niagara — 3:23
6. 05 - Song — 1:21
7. 06 - Song — 1:19
8. 07 - Lines written in a Lady's Album — 1:18
9. 08 - Lines to a Lady — 1:16
10. 09 - Lines on leaving New Rochelle — 1:24
11. 10 - Hope — 1:15
12. 11 - Fragment — 3:17
13. 12 - To--- — 1:09
14. 13 - Lines — 1:14
15. 14 - To Eva — 0:55
16. 15 - To a Lady with a Violet — 0:45
17. 16 - Bronx — 3:20
18. 17 - Song — 1:41
19. 18 - To Sarah — 1:51
20. 19 - The American Flag — 3:34

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