The Poacher, A Serious Ballad: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Poacher, A Serious Ballad, credited to Thomas Hood, 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 8 recordings of The Poacher, A Serious Ballad by Thomas Hood. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 16, 2015. Read in English by Chris Pyle; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; J. McDougall; Larry Wilson; Leonard Wilson; Greg Giordano and NoelBadrian. There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent expatriation. Beyond this, little presents itself for record in the outward facts of this upright and beneficial career, bright with genius and coruscating with wit, dark with the lengthening and deepening shadow of death. (from the Biographical Introduction (by William Michael Rossetti) to The Poetrical Works of Thomas Hood)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Poacher, A Serious Ballad
• Author credits: Thomas Hood
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 22:06

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• animals
• ballad
• poaching

Track guide

1. 01 - The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Read by CLP — 2:12
2. 02 - The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Read by DL — 2:46
3. 03 - The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Read by EL — 2:37
4. 04 - The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Read by JM — 2:24
5. 05 - The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Read by LCW — 2:41
6. 06 - The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Read by LLW — 3:14
7. 07 - The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Read by GG — 3:17
8. 08 - The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Read by NB — 2:55

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