To Celia


Read by LibriVox Volunteers

(3.3 stars; 5 reviews)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of To Celia by Ben Jonson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 6th, 2011.

Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.

To Celia is a poem first published after March 1616 by Ben Jonson. It was set to music after 1770, in the form of the song Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, the poem's first line.(summary by Wikipedia)

Chapters

To Celia - Read by ALG 0:52 Read by Amy Gramour
To Celia - Read by BRB 0:53 Read by Bree Bossier
To Celia - Read by CD 1:18 Read by CalmDragon
To Celia - Read by DL 0:57 Read by David Lawrence
To Celia - Read by DRB 1:03 Read by David Barnes
To Celia - Read by GHS 1:03 Read by Algy Pug
To Celia - Read by JCM 0:58 Read by Jason Mills
To Celia - Read by JOC 1:11 Read by JimOCR
To Celia - Read by LLW 1:06 Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
To Celia - Read by LS 1:04 Read by Liberty Stump
To Celia - Read by RN 1:12 Read by ravenotation
To Celia - Read by WT 1:04 Read by Winston Tharp

Reviews

Interesting Concept : Many readers -one Poem


(3 stars)

The first reader was the fastest. Fascination about reading speeds kept me listening to this too old-fashioned poem. It would have been better if set to music and sung instead of recited.