Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

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)

Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by AC Annie Coleman Rothenberg
00:05:37
Play 02 Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by KZ Kymm Zuckert
00:06:03
Play 03 Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by LF Fox in the Stars
00:05:18
Play 04 Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by MC Martin Clifton
00:04:12
Play 05 Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by PY Peter Yearsley
00:05:18