The Excursion: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Excursion, credited to William Wordsworth, 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 The Excursion, by William Wordsworth. Read by FunkyPhD and Bill Boerst. The Excursion: Being a portion of The Recluse, a Poem is a long poem by Romantic poet William Wordsworth and was first published in 1814. It was intended to be the second part of The Recluse, an unfinished larger work that was also meant to include The Prelude, Wordsworth's other long poem, which was eventually published posthumously. The exact dates of its composition are unknown, but the first manuscript is generally dated as either September 1806 or December 1809. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Excursion
• Author credits: William Wordsworth
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 8:04:45

Catalogue topics

• Poetry

Track guide

1. 00 - Note and Preface — 40:30
2. 01 - Book First — 47:35
3. 02 - Book Second — 45:05
4. 03 - Book Third — 50:42
5. 04 - Book Fourth, Part 1 — 28:28
6. 05 - Book Fourth, Part 2 — 35:52
7. 06 - Book Fifth — 51:38
8. 07 - Book Sixth, Part 1 — 30:39
9. 08 - Book Sixth, Part 2 — 30:28
10. 09 - Book Seventh, Part 1 — 26:16
11. 10 - Book Seventh, Part 2 — 27:51
12. 11 - Book Eighth — 30:28
13. 12 - Book Ninth — 39:23

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