Thanatopsis

Author(s): William Cullen Bryant

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

Narrators: Adrian Stephens, Bruce Kachuk, CalmDragon, Kerry Adams, KevinS, Larry Wilson, LeeSalter, Michele Fry, Peter Yearsley, Richa Jain, William Allan Jones

Number of Chapters: 11

Length: 59 minutes

Language: English

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant.

This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 12, 2022.
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The author was only 18 when he wrote this contemplation on death, his most famous poem. His teenage musings on nature's capacity to delight us and calm us while we live, then enfold us -- every one of us -- in its bosom for all eternity, captures a serene truth. The earth is a giant graveyard and a consummate leveler, for everybody suffers the same fate in the end. (Summary by Michele Fry)