"You Bid Me Try": Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

"You Bid Me Try", credited to Henry Austin Dobson, 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 17 recordings of "You Bid Me Try" by Austin Dobson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011. Henry Austin Dobson , commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. His official career was uneventful, but as a poet and biographer he was distinguished. Those who study his work are struck by its maturity. It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse, and some of his earliest work was his best. It was not until 1868 that the appearance of St Paul's, a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope, gave Harry Dobson an opportunity and an audience; and during the next six years he contributed some of his favourite poems, including "Tu Quoque," "A Gentleman of the Old School," "A Dialogue from Plato," and "Une Marquise." Many of his poems in their original form were illustrated—some, indeed, were written to support illustrations. (summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: "You Bid Me Try"
• Author credits: Henry Austin Dobson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 20:23

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• romance
• humor

Track guide

1. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by ARR — 0:56
2. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by BEM — 0:59
3. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by BM — 1:31
4. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by CD — 1:12
5. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by DL — 1:11
6. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by EPB — 0:55
7. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by Ezwa — 1:11
8. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by GHS — 1:23
9. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by JAG — 1:12
10. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by JM — 1:16
11. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by LAH — 1:16
12. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by LLW — 1:22
13. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by MG — 1:24
14. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by MGT — 1:07
15. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by RD — 1:12
16. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by RN — 1:15
17. "You Bid Me Try" - Read by WT — 1:09

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