The Flood: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Flood, credited to John Clare, 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 13 recordings of The Flood by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2016. Read in English by Amy Gramour; Bruce Kachuk; Benjamin Lewis; Brian Darby; David Lawrence; Esther ben Simonides; Newgatenovelist; Ian King; Lee Ann Howlett; Leonard Wilson; Maria Kasper; Matthew Datcher and SkyAlbatross. John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century, and he is now often considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self". ( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Flood
• Author credits: John Clare
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 16:10

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• water
• storm
• waves
• flood

Track guide

1. 01 - The Flood - Read by ALG — 0:59
2. 02 - The Flood - Read by BK — 1:26
3. 03 - The Flood - Read by BL — 1:22
4. 04 - The Flood - Read by BSD — 1:15
5. 05 - The Flood - Read by DL — 1:11
6. 06 - The Flood - Read by EBS — 1:11
7. 07 - The Flood - Read by EL — 1:01
8. 08 - The Flood - Read by IK — 1:22
9. 09 - The Flood - Read by LAH — 1:18
10. 10 - The Flood - Read by LLW — 1:20
11. 11 - The Flood - Read by MK — 1:28
12. 12 - The Flood - Read by MSD — 1:06
13. 13 - The Flood - Read by SABT — 1:10

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