A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

Author(s): Allan Cunningham

Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Bill Mosley, CJacobA, David Lawrence, Fshort, Snapdragon, Herman Roskams, Harvey Spurr, JemmaBlythe, Jason Mills, April Gonzales, Jannie Meisberger, James Rogers, Lee Ann Howlett, Lucy Perry, Leonard Wilson, Liberty Stump, John W. Michaels, Nbvoices, NoelBadrian, Ruth Golding, Ravenotation, Tamz, Ekzemplaro

Number of Chapters: 23

Length: 34 minutes

Language: English

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 4, 2012.

Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet and author. Cunningham was apprenticed to a stonemason, but gave his leisure to reading and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads. His prose is often spoiled by its misplaced and too ambitious rhetoric; his verse also is ornate, and both are full of mannerisms. Some of his songs, however, hold a high place among British lyrics. "A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea" is one of the best British sea-songs, although written by a landsman.(Summary by Wikipedia)