Tudor and Stuart Love Songs: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, credited to John Potter Briscoe, 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 Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by John Potter Briscoe. Read in English by Phil Schempf; Lynda Marie Neilson; sdorsch; Ellies; goldberry277; Greg Giordano; Matthew M. Benzing The spirit of reform which was developed during the early part of the sixteenth century brought about a desire on the part of young men of means to travel on the continent of Europe. This was for the purpose of making themselves acquainted with the politics, social life, literature, art, science, and commerce of the various nations of the same, especially of France, Spain, and Italy. These young Englishmen on their return introduced into the society in which they mixed not only the politenesses of these countries, but the wit of Italy, and the character of the poetry which was then in vogue in Southern Europe. Among these travellers during the reign of Henry the Eighth were Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey. These courtiers possessed the poetical faculty, and therefore paid special attention to literary form. As a result they introduced the Sonnet of the Petrarchan type into England. The amorous verse of the inhabitants of these sunny climes took hold of the young Englishmen. Many men of rank and education, who did not regard themselves as of the world of letters, penned pleasant verse, much of it being of an amatory character based upon that of the Italians. During the reign of "Good Queen Bess" England was full of song. Of the writers of love verses William Watson occupied a very high, probably the highest, position during the time of Elizabeth. A glance at the Table of Contents of this volume will show that some of the best poets who were born between the years 1503 and 1679 have handed down to us poetical contributions of this character. - Summary by J.P. Briscoe

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tudor and Stuart Love Songs
• Author credits: John Potter Briscoe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 77
• Listed recording duration: 2:20:23

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• life
• love
• sonnet
• 1503
• 1679
• 2019

Opening tracks: first 24 of 77

1. 00 - Introduction — 4:00
2. 01 - Sir Thomas Wyatt — 2:50
3. 02 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey — 3:06
4. 03 - Anon. — 1:24
5. 04 - George Turberville — 1:09
6. 05 - Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford — 3:12
7. 06 - Barnaby Googe — 2:04
8. 07 - George Gascoigne — 1:59
9. 08 - Sir Edward Dyer — 1:16
10. 09 - George Peele — 1:02
11. 10 - Sir Walter Raleigh — 4:18
12. 11 - Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke — 1:56
13. 12 - John Lyly — 1:10
14. 13 - Sir Philip Sidney — 3:53
15. 14 - Thomas Lodge — 3:25
16. 15 - Thomas Watson — 1:18
17. 16 - Nicholas Breton — 1:38
18. 17 - Thomas Campion — 1:58
19. 18 - Robert Greene — 3:46
20. 19 - Robert Southwell — 1:46
21. 20 - Sir John Harrington — 1:23
22. 21 - Henry Constable — 1:20
23. 22 - Samuel Daniel — 3:10
24. 23 - Christopher Marlowe — 2:00

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