The Star-Treader and Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Star-Treader and Other Poems, credited to Clark Ashton Smith, 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 Star-Treader and Other Poems by Clark Ashton Smith. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literary friend of H.P Lovecraft. As a poet, he was considered one of the last great West Coast Romantics. The Star-Treader and Other Poems, published at the age of 19, was his first volume of poetry and his breakout hit. Summary by Mary Kay. Cast List for The Masque of the Forsaken Gods: Narrator and Aphrodite: Mary Kay The Poet: Lucretia B. The Philosopher, Apollo and Another Nymph: Rosslyn Carlyle Jove and Pan: Jamie Artemis: Jennifer Dallman A Nymph: Greg Giordano Ate and The Gods Together: Shakira Searle Edited by: Mary Kay

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Star-Treader and Other Poems
• Author credits: Clark Ashton Smith
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 2:09:53

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• romantic
• astronomy
• sky
• heaven
• early career poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 01 - Nero — 6:09
2. 02 - Chant to Sirius — 1:46
3. 03 - The Star-Treader — 7:27
4. 04 - The Night Forest — 2:29
5. 05 - The Mad Wind / The Morning Pool / The Soul of the Sea — 2:56
6. 06 - Song to Oblivion — 1:21
7. 07 - Medusa — 3:29
8. 08 - Ode to the Abyss — 4:06
9. 09 - The Butterfly — 4:48
10. 10 - The Price / The Maze of Sleep / The Mystic Meaning — 1:45
11. 11 - Ode to Music — 4:07
12. 12 - The Last Night — 1:10
13. 13 - Ode to Imagination — 3:40
14. 14 - The Wind and the Moon — 1:40
15. 15 - Lament of the Stars — 6:46
16. 16 - The Winds — 2:03
17. 17 - A Sunset / The Snow-Blossoms / The Summer Moon — 1:50
18. 18 - The Cloud-Islands — 1:41
19. 19 - The Return of Hyperion — 1:42
20. 20 - Lethe — 1:13
21. 21 - Atlantis — 1:12
22. 22 - The Unrevealed — 1:10
23. 23 - The Eldritch Dark — 1:39
24. 24 - The Cherry-Snows / Fairy Lanterns — 1:10

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