Nightwind
John Clare
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Nightwind by John Clare.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 4, 2023.
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Clare had bought a copy of James Thomson's The Seasons and began to write poems and sonnets. In an attempt to hold off his parents' eviction from their home, Clare offered his poems to a local bookseller, Edward Drury, who sent them to his cousin, John Taylor of the Taylor & Hessey firm, which had published the work of John Keats. Taylor published Clare's Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery in 1820. The book was highly praised and the next year his Village Minstrel and Other Poems appeared. "There was no limit to the applause bestowed upon Clare, unanimous in their admiration of a poetical genius coming before them in the humble garb of a farm labourer." (Summary by Wikipedia ) (0 hr 20 min)
Chapters
| Nightwind - read by AAM | 1:17 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Nightwind - read by AF | 0:59 | Read by Anne Fletcher |
| Nightwind - read by ALP | 1:13 | Read by Algy Pug |
| Nightwind - read by APS | 1:18 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| Nightwind - read by ARB | 1:05 | Read by Agnes Robert Behr |
| Nightwind - read by BK | 1:15 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Nightwind - read by DL | 1:19 | Read by David Lawrence |
| Nightwind - read by EL0 | 1:13 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
| Nightwind - read by IK | 1:15 | Read by Ian King |
| Nightwind - read by IKL | 0:57 | Read by Inkell |
| Nightwind - read by JO | 0:55 | Read by JOConnell |
| Nightwind - read by KS | 1:03 | Read by KevinS |
| Nightwind - read by LAH | 1:11 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| Nightwind - read by LCW | 1:10 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Nightwind - read by LS | 1:11 | Read by LeeSalter |
| Nightwind - read by RR | 1:17 | Read by redrun |
| Nightwind - read by SWS | 1:22 | Read by Scotty Smith |
| Nightwind - read by WA | 0:56 | Read by willanthonyvoice |