The Lovers
Emily Dickinson
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Lovers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 27, 2012.
The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"—something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways. On the other hand, it may often gain something through the habit of freedom and the unconventional utterance of daring thoughts. In the case of the present author, there was absolutely no choice in the matter; she must write thus, or not at all. A recluse by temperament and habit, literally spending years without setting her foot beyond the doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly limited to her father's grounds, she habitually concealed her mind, like her person, from all but a very few friends; and it was with great difficulty that she was persuaded to print, during her lifetime, three or four poems. Yet she wrote verses in great abundance; and though brought curiously indifferent to all conventional rules, had yet a rigorous literary standard of her own, and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own tenacious fastidiousness. (Summary from the Preface of Poems by Emily Dickinson) (0 hr 26 min)
Chapters
The Lovers - Read by AG | 1:02 | Read by April Gonzales |
The Lovers - Read by BG | 1:04 | Read by Bob Gonzalez |
The Lovers - Read by BRO | 0:53 | Read by ruy343 |
The Lovers - Read by BT | 0:58 | Read by Bellona Times |
The Lovers - Read by CMP | 1:09 | Read by CaprishaPage |
The Lovers - Read by DL | 0:55 | Read by David Lawrence |
The Lovers - Read by Elli | 0:49 | Read by Elli |
The Lovers - Read by FS | 1:02 | Read by fshort |
The Lovers - Read by GC | 0:58 | Read by Snapdragon |
The Lovers - Read by HS | 1:02 | Read by Harvey Spurr |
The Lovers - Read by JBS | 0:56 | Read by JemmaBlythe |
The Lovers - Read by JCM | 0:55 | Read by Jason Mills |
The Lovers - Read by JM2 | 0:56 | Read by Jannie Meisberger |
The Lovers - Read by JN | 0:47 | Read by Julia Niedermaier |
The Lovers - Read by KLH | 0:55 | Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) |
The Lovers - Read by LAH | 0:56 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
The Lovers - Read by LD | 0:57 | Read by kdeutschle |
The Lovers - Read by LLW | 1:07 | Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
The Lovers - Read by MCD | 0:55 | Read by Marie Daum |
The Lovers - Read by MJF | 1:07 | Read by MJ Franck |
The Lovers - Read by MP | 1:01 | Read by Mateo Palfreman |
The Lovers - Read by MV | 1:02 | Read by John W. Michaels |
The Lovers - Read by REF | 1:02 | Read by Rhonda Federman |
The Lovers - Read by RH | 0:56 | Read by Rhajimas Holmes |
The Lovers - Read by RN | 1:25 | Read by ravenotation |
The Lovers - Read by UM | 0:57 | Read by ekzemplaro |
The Lovers - Read by VK | 0:48 | Read by Verity Kendall |