Bettesworth's Exultation
Jonathan Swift
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Bettesworth's Exultation Upon hearing that his name would be transmitted to posterity in Dr. Swift's works, by William Dunkin by Jonathan Swift.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 15, 2019.
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Jonathan Swift, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. - Summary by Wikipedia (0 hr 19 min)
Chapters
| Bettesworth's Exultation - Read by BK | 2:28 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Bettesworth's Exultation - Read by CB | 1:50 | Read by Caitlin Buckley |
| Bettesworth's Exultation - Read by CJPH | 2:09 | Read by ChadH94 |
| Bettesworth's Exultation - Read by GRS | 2:18 | Read by Graham Scott |
| Bettesworth's Exultation - Read by LAH | 2:29 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| Bettesworth's Exultation - Read by NZ | 2:30 | Read by nzager321 |
| Bettesworth's Exultation - Read by TP | 2:30 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Bettesworth's Exultation - Read by VB | 2:56 | Read by tovarisch |