COMPLETE: Songs of Innocence and Experience, Blake - PO/ll

[LibraryLady]

All recordings can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/songs-of-innocence-and-experience-by-william-blake/

Songs of Innocence and Experience

This is a classic collection of poems by William Blake. Split into two sections, these are fairly short poems and should make for quick readings.

Target completion date: February 31, 2006
Project Gutenberg e-text: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1934

Songs of Innocence

DONE - 01 Introduction - LibraryLady
DONE - 02 The Shepherd - LibraryLady
DONE - 03 The Echoing Green - LibraryLady
DONE - 04 The Lamb - LibraryLady
DONE - 05 The Little Black Boy - Dsayers
DONE - 06 The Blossom - ChipDoc
DONE - 07 The Chimney-Sweeper - Dsayers
DONE - 08 The Little Boy Lost - bookworm
DONE - 09 The Little Boy Found - bookworm
DONE - 10 Laughing Song - bookworm
DONE - 11 A Cradle Song - ChipDoc
DONE - 12 The Divine Image - Chip
DONE - 13 Holy Thursday - Dsayers
DONE - 14 Night - ChipDoc
DONE - 15 Spring - Chip
DONE - 16 Nurse?s Song - Dsayers
DONE - 17 Infant Joy - Chip
DONE - 18 A Dream - ChipDoc
DONE - 19 On Another?s Sorrow - Chip

Songs of Experience

DONE - 20 Introduction - ChipDoc
DONE - 21 Earth?s Answer - Dsayers
DONE - 22 The Clod and the Pebble - Dsayers
DONE - 23 Holy Thursday - Dsayers
DONE - 24 The Little Girl Lost - Dsayers
DONE - 25 The Little Girl Found - Dsayers
DONE - 26 The Chimney-Sweeper - Dsayers
DONE - 27 Nurse?s Song - Dsayers
DONE - 28 The Sick Rose - ChipDoc
DONE - 29 The Fly - Dsayers
DONE - 30 The Angel - ChipDoc
DONE - 31 The Tiger - GordMackenzie
DONE - 32 My Pretty Rose Tree - LibraryLady
DONE - 33 Ah, Sunflower - Dsayers
DONE - 34 The Lily - Dsayers
DONE - 35 The Garden of Love - Dsayers
DONE - 36 The Little Vagabond - ChipDoc
DONE - 37 London - Dsayers
DONE - 38 The Human Abstract - Dsayers
DONE - 39 Infant Sorrow - Dsayers
DONE - 40 A Poison Tree - Dsayers
DONE - 41 A Little Boy Lost - ChipDoc
DONE - 42 A Little Girl Lost - ChipDoc
DONE - 43 A Divine Image - GordMacKenzie
DONE - 44 A Cradle Song - LibraryLady
DONE - 45 The Schoolboy - LibraryLady
DONE - 46 To Tirzah - LibraryLady
DONE - 47 The Voice of the Ancient Bard - LibraryLady


There are no numbers in the Gutenberg text, so please search for your poem by name. Please be very careful when looking up your poem, as several titles are very similar (The Little Girl Lost and A Little Girl Lost), and in many cases, the same title is given to two different poems, one in each section (Introduction, A Divine Image, and A Cradle Song, etc.).

File Name Format
songs_of_innocence_and_experience_#_blake.mp3

ID3 Tag Formats:
Title/Name: [poem's title] ([Innocence/Experience]) ; for example: Introduction (Innocence)
Artist: William Blake
Album: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Track Number: #
Genre: Speech
*Optional* Comments: Recorded by [your name]

File Format:
Stereo, 128kpbs, MP3

You may either post a link to your completed files here in the forum or email them to me via http://www.yousendit.com/ at this email address: ac DOT timshel AT gmail DOT com

Please include the following with your file:
- Your name as you would like it to appear on the catalog page
- URL of your homepage if you have one you would like linked to your name on the catalog page

If this is your first recording, you'll also find this useful:
http://librivox.org/about-recording/

The following information should be included within the recordings:

INTRO

"This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox.org"

If you wish, say: "Recorded by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address], on [date]."

Say: "Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake. [Section Title], [Poem Title]."

For example: ?Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence, The Shepherd.?

Note: It is important to say the section of the poem before the poem title due to the similar and duplicate poem titles.

END OF RECORDING
Please say "end of [Section title], [Poem Title]" and leave a few seconds of silence.

Pease remember to check this thread often for updates!

[DSayers]

It's just great you've taken on coordinating these collections; they are timeless poetry indeed!

I'd like to record the following poems:

The little black boy
Nurse's Song (both Innocence and Experience)
Chimney Sweeper (both I & E)
Holy Thursday (both I & E)
The Fly
London

-Dennis (dsayers) in California

[hugh]

annie, if things calm down for me i'll come back and sign up - but i have backlog, and little time, so. ... good luck with this excellent proj.

[LibraryLady]

Dennis - I'm glad you're excited about the project; I thought since Gord's Leaves of Grass and my Shakespeare's Sonnets are all claimed up, it was time to start another volume of poetry. I've signed you up for those poems you requested.

Hugh - Thanks, and of course I understand you are busy. Besides, I want those three sections of Sonnets you owe me before you sign up for any more of mine!

[Bronwyn Kate]

Innocence
Little Boy Lost
Little Boy Found
Laughing Song
Spring
The Divine Image
Infant Joy
On Another's Sorrow

Experience
Clod and Pebble
Earth's Answer
Ah! Sunflower
The Lily
The Garden of Love
The Human Abstract
A Poison-Tree
Infant Sorrow
Little Girl Lost
Little Girl Found

Thank you very much!

I like all Blake's nature poems and some of his prophetic poems and I am glad they are nice and short.

I have a copy edited by Jacob Bronowski so I can read from there. Is the text any different from the Gutenberg?

[LibraryLady]

You're all signed up, Bronwyn Kate! Wow, this will be claimed in no time at this rate! I assumed that when you said "Little Girl Lost" that you meant "The Little Girl Lost" (24) and not "A Little Girl Lost" (42). Was this what you wanted? Let me know otherwise.

I imagine your printed text should match up just fine but I guess it wouldn't hurt for you to double check against Gutenberg. I would check but I don't have the text you have so it is up to you.

[GordMackenzie]

I'm swamped with a bunch of stuff... but how could I live with myself if I didn't volunteer for a reading of William Blake? One of my all time favorites.

Since I don't have a lot of time on my hands, I'll just go straight for the gusto and take "the tiger".

Thanks for coordinating this one!

[LibraryLady]

I hoped I'd see you here Gord. I saw that you were one of the ones discussing it in the suggested books forum. And who better than the reader known as "The Voice" could I hope for to read "The Tiger"?! I look forward to it, and by all means grab more if you have more time later and there are still some available.

[ChipDoc]

Nobody's picked this yet?
28 The Sick Rose

Can I have it? I know it as a song by Ivor Cutler and never even realized it was by Blake!

[LibraryLady]

Of course you can have it Chip! Just one for you??

[ChipDoc]

Figured I couldn't stop with just one, Annie? To be honest, it seemed to be filling up fast and I didn't want to be greedy. It's hardly as if there isn't already plenty of my braying around on these sound files...

But I really did WANT that one! If there are any still left on Monday night, I'll do them all if you like.

[LibraryLady]

These nice short poems are much like the fables and potato chips, you can't have just one!

I'm glad you got the one you wanted most! And of course you can claim more tomorrow if you'd like, but don't feel like you have to, I'm sure they'll all get grabbed eventually. Thanks, Chip.

[GordMackenzie]

These nice short poems are much like the fables and potato chips, you can't have just one!

Hey, LL, you're right about not being able to have just one! If I may, I'll take "Divine Image" as well.

[LibraryLady]

You got it Gord.

[Gesine]

Oh, I'm looking forward to this, Annie! Like Hugh, I'm behind with my recordings, otherwise... but it seems to fill up nicely anyway! :)