The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point and Selected Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point and Selected Other Poems, credited to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point and Selected Other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Read in English by Alan Mapstone.Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in County Durham, England in 1806. From the age of 15 she suffered a series of debilitating illnesses. Her book of "Poems" published in 1844 attracted the attention of Robert Browning, leading to their courtship, marriage and elopement to Italy where she lived for the rest of her life. She died in Florence in 1861. She was a campaigner for the abolition of slavery despite both her parents' families having financial interests in plantations in the West Indies. Her poem "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" was an attempt to make people in England and America more aware of the cruelty of slavery as it affected a young slave woman. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point and Selected Other Poems
• Author credits: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 1:23:36

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• English
• poems
• translations

Track guide

1. 01 - The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point — 16:45
2. 02 - The Young Queen — 4:51
3. 03 - Victoria's Tears — 3:45
4. 04 - A Sabbath Morning at Sea — 5:03
5. 05 - To Bettine — 3:50
6. 06 - A Child's Grave at Florence — 8:19
7. 07 - The Sea-Mew — 3:21
8. 08 - Cowper's Grave — 6:28
9. 09 - To Flush, my Dog — 6:37
10. 10 - SONNETS: On a Portrait of Wordsworth — 1:38
11. 11 - Flush or Faunus — 1:33
12. 12 - To George Sand - A Desire — 1:38
13. 13 - To George Sand - A Recognition — 1:34
14. 14 - The Prisoner — 1:35
15. 15 - Mountaineer and Poet — 1:30
16. 16 - The Poet — 1:28
17. 17 - PARAPHRASES: Marriage of Psyche and Cupid (on Apuleius) — 3:00
18. 18 - The Daughters of Pandarus (on Homer) — 3:25
19. 19 - Ode to the Swallow (on Anacreon) — 1:34
20. 20 - Paraphrases on Heine — 5:42

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