Twenty Sonnets: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Twenty Sonnets, credited to Robert Southey, 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 Twenty Sonnets by Robert Southey. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The English poet Robert Southey was born in Bristol in 1774 and held the post of Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death in 1843. These twenty Sonnets were written between 1794 and 1799 while Southey was living in Westbury, a village outside Bristol. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Twenty Sonnets
• Author credits: Robert Southey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 24:49

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• English
• sonnets
• lyric

Track guide

1. 01 - Sonnet I — 1:44
2. 02 - Sonnet II — 1:09
3. 03 - Sonnet III — 1:08
4. 04 - Sonnet IV Corston — 1:10
5. 05 - Sonnet V The Evening Rainbow — 1:06
6. 06 - Sonnet VI — 1:13
7. 07 - Sonnet VII — 1:16
8. 08 - Sonnet VIII — 1:16
9. 09 - Sonnet IX — 1:15
10. 10 - Sonnet X — 1:19
11. 11 - Sonnet XI — 1:18
12. 12 - Sonnet XII To a Goose — 1:12
13. 13 - Sonnet XIII — 1:08
14. 14 - Sonnet XIV — 1:12
15. 15 - Sonnet XV — 1:08
16. 16 - Sonnet XVI — 1:12
17. 17 - Sonnet XVII — 1:17
18. 18 - Sonnet XVIII — 1:12
19. 19 - Sonnet XIX — 1:19
20. 20 - Sonnet XX — 1:15

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