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Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96 lines), in which D.H. Lawrence evokes a gritty yet sensitive picture of urban poverty before the First World War. (Summary by LauraFox)

• Bartleby e-text
• Wikipedia - D. H. Lawrence
• LibriVox’s Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts Internet Archive page
• Zip file of all versions (12.7MB)
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• Version 1 - 00:05:37
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  [mp3@128kbps - 5.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.8MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 - 00:06:03
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  [mp3@128kbps - 5.8MB]
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  Read by: Kymm Zuckert
• Version 3 - 00:05:18
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  [mp3@128kbps - 5.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.3MB]
  Read by: Laura Fox
• Version 4 - 00:04:12
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  [mp3@128kbps - 4.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.3MB]
  Read by: Martin Clifton
• Version 5 - 00:05:18
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  [ogg vorbis - 2.9MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley