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Cover of Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

D. H. Lawrence

Length
26 min
Chapters
5
Language
English
First published
1916

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)

Chapters

From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org), the text (opens bartleby.com), all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org).