The Undying One and Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Undying One and Other Poems, credited to Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, 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 Undying One and Other Poems by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton. Read in English by NoelBadrian. “The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writing in an 1840 issue of The Quarterly Review about the poet Caroline Norton. Born Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan in 1808, she was the granddaughter of the famous Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. On their introduction to London Society, Caroline and her two sisters were dubbed The Three Graces for their beauty and accomplishments. Her disastrous marriage to George Norton in 1827 ultimately led to her campaigning successfully to change those Laws of England relating to Divorce, child custody and women's property rights. Caroline and her tragic experiences and life were the inspiration for many works by Victorian writers including Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens and George Meredith. She died in 1877. "The Undying One and Other Poems" published in 1830 was her second book. The title poem is an epic based on the legend of the Wandering Jew, the sinner who is doomed to roam the earth until Judgment Day. (Summary by Noel Badrian)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Undying One and Other Poems
• Author credits: Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 5:46:44

Catalogue topics

• death
• poem
• love
• Epic
• short

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 01 - The Undying One - Canto 1 — 44:31
2. 02 - The Undying One - Canto 2 — 50:39
3. 03 - The Undying One - Canto 3 - Part 1 — 45:52
4. 04 - The Undying One - Canto 3 - Part 2 — 47:55
5. 05 - The Undying One - Canto 4 — 37:33
6. 06 - On the Purple and White Carnation - A Fable — 5:09
7. 07 - The Careless Word — 3:39
8. 08 - They Loved one another — 2:36
9. 09 - My Heart is like a withered Nut — 1:47
10. 10 - My Childhood’s Home — 1:38
11. 11 - Escape from the Snares of Love — 2:12
12. 12 - Ifs — 2:03
13. 13 - As when from Dreams awaking — 2:19
14. 14 - Old Friends — 2:05
15. 15 - The Bride — 4:23
16. 16 - The Pilgrim of Life — 3:13
17. 17 - The Captive Pirate — 4:00
18. 18 - The Future — 9:39
19. 19 - I was not false to thee — 1:49
20. 20 - The Greek Girl’s Lament for her Lover — 2:05
21. 21 - Oh! Life is like the Summer Rill — 1:58
22. 22 - When poor in all but Hope and Love — 1:57
23. 23 - We have been Friends together — 1:39
24. 24 - The Boatswain’s Song — 2:34

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