The Lovers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lovers, credited to Emily Dickinson, 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 27 recordings of The Lovers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 27, 2012. The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"—something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways. On the other hand, it may often gain something through the habit of freedom and the unconventional utterance of daring thoughts. In the case of the present author, there was absolutely no choice in the matter; she must write thus, or not at all. A recluse by temperament and habit, literally spending years without setting her foot beyond the doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly limited to her father's grounds, she habitually concealed her mind, like her person, from all but a very few friends; and it was with great difficulty that she was persuaded to print, during her lifetime, three or four poems. Yet she wrote verses in great abundance; and though brought curiously indifferent to all conventional rules, had yet a rigorous literary standard of her own, and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own tenacious fastidiousness. (Summary from the Preface of 'Poems by Emily Dickinson' )

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lovers
• Author credits: Emily Dickinson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 26:34

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• romance

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. The Lovers - Read by AG — 1:02
2. The Lovers - Read by BG — 1:04
3. The Lovers - Read by BRO — 0:53
4. The Lovers - Read by BT — 0:58
5. The Lovers - Read by CMP — 1:09
6. The Lovers - Read by DL — 0:55
7. The Lovers - Read by Elli — 0:49
8. The Lovers - Read by FS — 1:03
9. The Lovers - Read by GC — 0:59
10. The Lovers - Read by HS — 1:02
11. The Lovers - Read by JBS — 0:56
12. The Lovers - Read by JCM — 0:56
13. The Lovers - Read by JM2 — 0:57
14. The Lovers - Read by JN — 0:47
15. The Lovers - Read by KLH — 0:56
16. The Lovers - Read by LAH — 0:56
17. The Lovers - Read by LD — 0:57
18. The Lovers - Read by LLW — 1:08
19. The Lovers - Read by MCD — 0:56
20. The Lovers - Read by MJF — 1:07
21. The Lovers - Read by MP — 1:01
22. The Lovers - Read by MV — 1:02
23. The Lovers - Read by REF — 1:03
24. The Lovers - Read by RH — 0:56

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