To His Coy Mistress (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

To His Coy Mistress (version 2), credited to Andrew Marvell, 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 volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2017. Read in English by Amelia Chesley; Algy Pug; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Ezwa; Greg Giordano; Maria Kasper; Matthew Datcher; Nick J. Gold; Peter Thomlinson; Scotty Smith; Tony Addison and Tomas Peter. Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems range from the love-song "To His Coy Mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "Upon Appleton House" and "The Garden", the political address "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland", and the later personal and political satires "Flecknoe" and "The Character of Holland". ( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: To His Coy Mistress (version 2)
• Author credits: Andrew Marvell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 38:24

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• philosophy
• romance
• time

Track guide

1. 01 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by AC — 2:15
2. 02 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by ALP — 2:30
3. 03 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by DL — 2:35
4. 04 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by EL — 3:08
5. 05 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by EZWA — 2:32
6. 06 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by EZWA — 3:40
7. 07 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by GG — 3:11
8. 08 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by MK — 2:39
9. 09 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by MSD — 2:22
10. 10 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by NJG — 2:39
11. 11 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by PT — 2:40
12. 12 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by SS — 3:20
13. 13 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by TA — 2:28
14. 14 - To His Coy Mistress - Read by TP — 2:25

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