The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 3): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 3), credited to William Butler Yeats, 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 Wild Swans at Coole (Version 3) by William Butler Yeats. Read in English by Kazbek. The Wild Swans at Coole was originally published in 1917. This audiobook is based on the 1919 edition, which omits the play included in the first edition, and adds seventeen new poems. Previously recorded: Early Ballads and Lyrics The Rose The Wind Among the Reeds In the Seven Woods From The Green Helmet and Other Poems Responsibilities (Summary by Kazbek)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 3)
• Author credits: William Butler Yeats
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 1:25:24

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 01 - The Wild Swans at Coole — 2:05
2. 02 - In Memory of Major Robert Gregory — 6:44
3. 03 - An Irish Airman Foresees his Death — 1:11
4. 04 - Men Improve with the Years — 1:06
5. 05 - The Collarbone of a Hare — 1:06
6. 06 - Under the Round Tower — 1:56
7. 07 - Solomon to Sheba — 1:16
8. 08 - The Living Beauty — 0:56
9. 09 - A Song — 0:58
10. 10 - To a Young Beauty — 1:03
11. 11 - To a Young Girl — 0:42
12. 12 - The Scholars — 0:57
13. 13 - Tom O'Roughley — 1:04
14. 14 - The Sad Shepherd — 8:54
15. 15 - Lines Written in Dejection — 0:55
16. 16 - The Dawn — 0:59
17. 17 - On Woman — 2:05
18. 18 - The Fisherman — 1:54
19. 19 - The Hawk — 1:04
20. 20 - Memory — 0:31
21. 21 - Her Praise — 1:31
22. 22 - The People — 2:40
23. 23 - His Phoenix — 3:00
24. 24 - A Thought from Propertius — 0:37

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