To The Rural Muse and Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

To The Rural Muse and Other Poems, credited to John Clare, 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 To The Rural Muse and Other Poems by John Clare. Read in English by Alan Mapstone. The English poet John Clare was the son of a farm labourer and was often referred to as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet". His work is mostly inspired by the English countryside and the rural way of life. In "To the Rural Muse" he explains how he regarded some aspects of the rural life as a kind of Poetic Muse. Clare originally wrote in Northamptonshire dialect with little or no punctuation. Modern editions of his work often revise these aspects. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Recording facts

• Recording title: To The Rural Muse and Other Poems
• Author credits: John Clare
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 1:12:43

Catalogue topics

• English
• dialect
• northamptonshire
• english countryside
• poetic muse

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - To the Rural Muse — 14:28
2. 02 - On May Morning — 7:34
3. 03 - Thoughts in a Churchyard — 2:56
4. 04 - Sonnet - To Napoleon — 1:32
5. 05 - On an Infant Killed by Lightning — 1:44
6. 06 - The Shepherd's Song — 2:17
7. 07 - The Evening Star — 3:10
8. 08 - Insects — 2:15
9. 09 - The Skylark — 2:35
10. 10 - Genius — 5:33
11. 11 - The Milking Hour — 2:18
12. 12 - The Pasture — 2:57
13. 13 - SONNETS: Rural Scenes — 1:31
14. 14 - Lord Byron — 1:29
15. 15 - Crowland Abbey — 1:33
16. 16 - November — 1:34
17. 17 - The Milking Shed — 1:33
18. 18 - To Charles Lamb — 1:34
19. 19 - Boston Church — 1:31
20. 20 - Izaac Walton — 1:29
21. 21 - The Hail-storm in June 1831 — 1:33
22. 22 - The Flood — 1:31
23. 23 - Shepherd's Hut — 1:34
24. 24 - A Woodland Seat — 1:28

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