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)
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)
LibriVox recordings are public domain in the United States; copyright status may differ elsewhere.
Chapters
- Chapter 1
To Celia - Read by ALG
00:52 - Chapter 2
To Celia - Read by BRB
00:53 - Chapter 3
To Celia - Read by CD
01:18 - Chapter 4
To Celia - Read by DL
00:57 - Chapter 5
To Celia - Read by DRB
01:03 - Chapter 6
To Celia - Read by GHS
01:03 - Chapter 7
To Celia - Read by JCM
00:58 - Chapter 8
To Celia - Read by JOC
01:11 - Chapter 9
To Celia - Read by LLW
01:06 - Chapter 10
To Celia - Read by LS
01:04 - Chapter 11
To Celia - Read by RN
01:12 - Chapter 12
To Celia - Read by WT
01:04