Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.
"Tithonus" doesn't mean a whole lot without the knowledge that the speaker is a mythological character who was loved by a goddess and was granted immortality, but not immortal youth. Since the gods could not take back their gifts, he was doomed to slowly suffer the extremes of decay as he grew ever older and older. (Summary by Leonard Wilson)
"Tithonus" doesn't mean a whole lot without the knowledge that the speaker is a mythological character who was loved by a goddess and was granted immortality, but not immortal youth. Since the gods could not take back their gifts, he was doomed to slowly suffer the extremes of decay as he grew ever older and older. (Summary by Leonard Wilson)
LibriVox recordings are public domain in the United States; copyright status may differ elsewhere.
Chapters
- Chapter 1
Tithonus - Read by BK
05:27 - Chapter 2
Tithonus - Read by BSD
04:33 - Chapter 3
Tithonus - Read by EL
05:50 - Chapter 4
Tithonus - Read by GG
05:46 - Chapter 5
Tithonus - Read by LLW
06:06 - Chapter 6
Tithonus - Read by MG
06:55 - Chapter 7
Tithonus - Read by MK
05:13 - Chapter 8
Tithonus - Read by PY
05:40 - Chapter 9
Tithonus - Read by RF
04:54 - Chapter 10
Tithonus - Read by TA
05:57