The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War, credited to Robert Laurence Binyon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War by Robert Laurence Binyon. Read in English by David Wales. This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (1857-1934) set three of the poems (The Fourth Of August, To Women, For The Fallen) in his cantata The Spirit of England (1915-1917). Since its composing and musical setting, For The Fallen has held an honored place in every November 11th Remembrance Day for Britain and the Commonwealth (Memorial Day for Americans). Moved by the opening of the Great War and the already high number of casualties of the British Expeditionary Force, in 1914 Laurence Binyon wrote his For the Fallen, with its Ode of Remembrance, as he was visiting the cliffs on the north Cornwall coast,… The third and fourth verses of the poem (although often just the fourth) have so been claimed as a tribute to all casualties of war, regardless of nation. - Summary by Wikipedia and david wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War
• Author credits: Robert Laurence Binyon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 25:29

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• World War I
• poems
• Great War
• remembrance

Track guide

1. 01 - The Fourth Of August — 1:59
2. 02 - Strange Fruit — 1:55
3. 03 - The New Idol — 1:13
4. 04 - The Harvest — 1:14
5. 05 - To The Belgians — 1:56
6. 06 - Louvain — 2:06
7. 07 - To Goethe — 1:37
8. 08 - At Rheims — 2:18
9. 09 - To The Enemy Complaining — 1:14
10. 10 - To Women — 1:33
11. 11 - For The Fallen — 2:04
12. 12 - Ode For September — 6:20

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