To His Mistress Going to Bed: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

To His Mistress Going to Bed, credited to John Donne, 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 12 recordings of To His Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 12, 2017. Read in English by Algy Pug; Dafni Ma; Newgatenovelist; Greg Giordano; Jenny Adamson; Jason in Panama; Matthew Datcher; Patrick Wallace; Tony Addison; Tomas Peter; tovarisch and Vickie Rayhill. John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. ( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: To His Mistress Going to Bed
• Author credits: John Donne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 43:34

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• romance
• sensuality

Track guide

1. 01 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by ALP — 3:26
2. 02 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by DM — 3:50
3. 03 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by EL — 3:47
4. 04 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by GG — 3:42
5. 05 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by JA — 2:31
6. 06 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by JCB — 3:48
7. 07 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by MSD — 3:41
8. 08 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by PJW — 3:57
9. 09 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by TA — 3:56
10. 10 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by TP — 3:27
11. 11 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by VB — 4:17
12. 12 - To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by VLR — 3:12

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