Sonnets

Sonnets

LibriVox · Audiobook · 30 episodes

30 sonnets by the English poet and cleric the Reverend William Lisle Bowles "written chiefly during various journeys". Published in 1789 they were received with favour, not only by the general public, but by other poets such as Coleridge and Wordsworth. The text includes other poems, but these sonnets were most suitable for the project. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

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Episodes

Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland

Episode 1 · 1:59
At Bamborough Castle

Episode 2 · 1:37
To the River Wensbeck

Episode 3 · 1:36
To the River Tweed

Episode 4 · 1:14
Evening

Episode 5 · 1:21
On Leaving a Village in Scotland

Episode 6 · 1:33
To the River Itchen

Episode 7 · 1:38
O Poverty!

Episode 8 · 1:19
At Dover Cliffs

Episode 9 · 1:36
At Ostend, Landing

Episode 10 · 1:25
At Ostend

Episode 11 · 1:31
On the River Rhine

Episode 12 · 1:39
At a Convent

Episode 13 · 1:19
O Time!

Episode 14 · 1:09
Languid, and Sad

Episode 15 · 1:12
On a Distant View of England

Episode 16 · 1:12
To the River Cherwell

Episode 17 · 1:41
As one who Long by Wasting Sickness Worn

Episode 18 · 1:10
Go Then

Episode 19 · 1:24
There is Strange Musick

Episode 20 · 1:26
Whose was that Gentle Voice

Episode 21 · 1:27
As o'er these Hills

Episode 22 · 1:09
Netley Abbey

Episode 23 · 1:22
O Harmony!

Episode 24 · 1:08
How shall I meet thee

Episode 25 · 1:08
How Blest with Thee

Episode 26 · 1:39
On revisiting Oxford

Episode 27 · 1:41
At Malvern

Episode 28 · 1:08
On the Death of the Reverend William Benwell

Episode 29 · 1:10
On Reviewing the Foregoing

Episode 30 · 1:36