Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses, credited to Michael Field, 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 Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses by Michael Field. (Translated by .) Read in English by KHand; Jason in Panama; aniroo; Sonia This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest not only because they are beautiful examples of aesthetic poetry, but also because many of them contain homosexuality as a theme. The joint authors lived openly as a lesbian couple for forty years around the turn of the 20th century. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses
• Author credits: Michael Field
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:17:22

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• love
• england
• lesbian
• lgbt
• 1893
• 2017

Track guide

1. 01 - The First Book of Songs — 17:39
2. 02 - The Second Book of Songs — 16:10
3. 03 - The Third Book of Songs — 10:29
4. 04 - The Fourth Book of Songs — 13:45
5. 05 - The Fifth Book of Songs — 19:19

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