The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, credited to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 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 Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during his active literary career, and ultimately rejected as unsatisfactory. Of this considerable body of verse, a great part was written, not in youth or old age, but while Tennyson's powers were at their greatest. Whatever reasons may once have existed for suppressing the poems that follow, the student of English literature is entitled to demand that the whole body of Tennyson's work should now be open, without restriction or impediment, to the critical study to which the works of his compeers are subjected. - Summary by Editor's Note

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Author credits: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 56
• Listed recording duration: 2:52:40

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• anthology

Opening tracks: first 24 of 56

1. 01 - Timbuctoo — 15:00
2. 02 - The 'How' and the 'Why' — 2:30
3. 03 - The Burial of Love — 1:32
4. 04 - To —— — 0:46
5. 05 - Song ''I' the gloaming light'' — 1:18
6. 06 - Song ''Every day hath its night'' — 1:33
7. 07 - Hero to Leander — 1:57
8. 08 - The Mystic — 3:17
9. 09 - The Grasshopper — 2:17
10. 10 - Love, Pride and Forgetfulness — 1:02
11. 11 - Chorus ''The varied earth, the moving heaven'' — 1:57
12. 12 - Lost Hope — 0:46
13. 13 - The Tears of Heaven — 0:49
14. 14 - Love and Sorrow — 1:23
15. 15 - To a Lady Sleeping — 0:59
16. 16 - Sonnet ''Could I outwear my present state of woe'' — 1:21
17. 17 - Sonnet ''Though Night hath climbed'' — 1:19
18. 18 - Sonnet ''Shall the evil hag die'' — 1:04
19. 19 - Sonnet ''The pallid thunder stricken sigh for gain'' — 1:16
20. 20 - Love — 2:50
21. 21 - English War Song — 2:58
22. 22 - National Song — 1:36
23. 23 - Dualisms — 1:28
24. 24 - οἱ ρἑοντες — 1:08

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