The Testaments of John Davidson: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Testaments of John Davidson by John Davidson: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 9 original MP3 tracks, 4:24:01 running time and a link to listen.
The Testaments of John Davidson, credited to John Davidson, 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 Testaments of John Davidson by John Davidson. Read in English by kilpatrick83 The oft-maligned Testaments of John Davidson work as a sublime, psychopathic post-Nietzchean (Zarathustra was merely Davidson's springboard into a deeper transcendence) prologue to his impending suicide in 1909. After a warmly receptive life of ballad making and the like (benevolent pedagogy and inclusion in the chintzy Rhymer's Club), a by then poverty-stricken, neglected Davidson could sharpen his mind toward the completion of a more pristine art. Subsequently, we are given the meanest gap between symbolism and modernism (an expressionistic, Schopenhauerian materialist monism in monologic profile a la Browning, a demented Kipling) on record, a Marlowe-level blank verse masterwork of the now, warping into a demented, ironically (intended or not, certainly unfunded and ignored by anyone in charge) nationalist individualism, a system of self-deification, the final scream of a decaying genius. (Summary by kilpatrick83)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Testaments of John Davidson
- Author credits: John Davidson
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 9
- Listed recording duration: 4:24:01
Catalogue topics
- poetry
- materialism
Track guide
- 01 - The Testament of a Vivisector — 13:52
- 02 - The Testament of an Empire-Builder — 43:56
- 03 - The Testament of a Prime Minister — 56:47
- 04 - Excerpt from The Theatrocrat — 3:31
- 05 - The Testament of John Davidson (Part 1) — 33:06
- 06 - The Testament of John Davidson (Part 2) — 42:28
- 07 - The Testament of John Davidson (Part 3) — 22:34
- 08 - The Testament of John Davidson (Part 4) — 39:30
- 09 - St. Valentine's Eve (Fleet Street Ecologues) — 8:17
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