The Hundred Best English Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Hundred Best English Poems, credited to Various, 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 Hundred Best English Poems by Various. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk This wonderful collection of poems showcases the incredible talent of the some of the greatest poets in the world. These creative masterpieces are truly the best of the best, the crème de la crème, one hundred of the most awe inspiring and magnificent examples of poetic skill - works that will live forever in the annals of great literature. Embracing the most influential names in poetry we have all come to love, respect and revere, this exceptional compilation has a verse for every occasion, a theme for each day of existence and poetic instances for all of life's varied circumstances. Whether it's pondering Keats' assertion that "beauty is truth, truth beauty" or sharing Tennyson's anticipation of "crossing the bar", we can all in some way identify with the ideas and thoughts expressed in the works presented here. We can't help but be inspired and also entertained by the words of the superlative writers in this collection as they address the perils and wonders of the human condition. By enriching the background themes of the life journey in which we find ourselves, these poems form a chorus in the universal music of an existence in which we collectively form the melody. - Summary by Bruce Kachuk

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Hundred Best English Poems
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 101
• Listed recording duration: 4:16:07

Catalogue topics

• sonnets
• odes
• popular poetry
• famous poets
• hundred best poems
• romantic poems
• epic poems
• poems of war

Opening tracks: first 24 of 101

1. 000 - Prefatory Note — 3:53
2. 001 - Madrigal — 0:48
3. 002 - The Forsaken Merman — 8:25
4. 003 - Life — 2:16
5. 004 - Song from 'Pippa Passes' 1 — 0:39
6. 005 - Song from 'Pippa Passes' 2 — 1:04
7. 006 - The Lost Mistress — 1:34
8. 007 - Home-Thoughts, from the Sea — 1:09
9. 008 - Epilogue — 1:44
10. 009 - The Silver Tassie — 1:13
11. 010 - Of a' the Airts — 1:13
12. 011 - John Anderson my Jo — 1:17
13. 012 - Ae Fond Kiss — 2:03
14. 013 - Ye Flowery Banks — 1:23
15. 014 - A Red, Red Rose — 1:19
16. 015 - Mary Morison — 1:53
17. 016 - She Walks in Beauty — 1:34
18. 017 - Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom — 1:32
19. 018 - Song from 'The Corsair' — 1:36
20. 019 - Song from 'Don Juan' — 6:22
21. 020 - Hohenlinden — 2:17
22. 021 - Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth — 1:27
23. 022 - Youth and Age — 3:30
24. 023 - Written in the Year 1746 — 1:09

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