Digital audio files

Prose | Poetry

On this page you will find links to digital audio recordings of poems, prose and drama texts. I recorded them in mp3 format using Audacity. The Real Media files were converted from the mp3 files using Helix Producer Basic. To play these files you will need a media player such as RealOne Player or Windows Media Player. You are welcome to edit the files and add your own FX. If you have a slow connection the files may take some time to download or open.

Prose Texts

Ælfric | Dickens

Ælfric (ca. 955 to 1020)

Ælfric was a Benedictine monk, who became Abbot of Eynsham. He translated parts of the scriptures, and wrote works on grammar, and the lives of the saints. He is generally regarded to be the finest prose writer of Old English.

• From his Latin Grammar: mp3 | Real Media
• From his Life of St. Edmund: mp3 | Real Media

Charles Dickens (1812-1870

• From Great Expectations (1861); Chapter 1: mp3 | Real Media

Poems

Blake | Browning | Chaucer | Clare | Coleridge | Donne | Goldsmith | Hardy | Hopkins | Jonson | Shakespeare | Tennyson | Tichborne | Whitman

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400)

• The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue - lines 1 to 34: mp3 | Real Media

Chidiock Tichborne (ca. 1558-1586)

• Elegy: mp3 | Real Media

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• Sonnet 130: mp3 | Real Media

John Donne (1572-1631)

• The Good Morrow: mp3 | Real Media
• The Sunne Rising: mp3 | Real Media
• The Canonization: mp3 | Real Media
• Song: “Sweetest love, I do not go”: mp3 | Real Media
• The Anniversarie: mp3 | Real Media
• A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day: mp3 | Real Media
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 130: mp3 | Real Media

Ben Jonson (ca. 1572-1637)

• On My First Sonne: mp3 | Real Media

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-11784)

• The Village Schoolmaster mp3 | Real Media

William Blake (1757-1827)

• The Little Boy Lost: mp3 | Real Media
• The Little Boy Found: mp3 | Real Media
• The Tyger: mp3 | Real Media

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

• Frost at Midnight: mp3 | Real Media

John Clare (1793-1864)

• Sonnet: “I love to see the summer...”: mp3 | Real Media

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

• Ulysses: mp3 | Real Media
• The Eagle: mp3 | Real Media

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

• My Last Duchess: mp3 | Real Media

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

• Patrolling Barnegat: mp3 | Real Media

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

• The Man He Killed: mp3 | Real Media

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

• Inversnaid: mp3 | Real Media

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