For A Grotto by Mark Akenside read by Various | Full Audio Book
For A Grotto by Mark Akenside (1721 - 1770)
Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Read by: Algy Pug, Bruce Kachuk, David Lawrence, PaulClayton, Phil Schempf, ShrimpPhish in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - For A Grotto - read by ALP
00:01:26 - 02 - For A Grotto - read by BK
00:03:04 - 03 - For A Grotto - read by DL
00:04:34 - 04 - For A Grotto - read by PAC
00:06:03 - 05 - For A Grotto - read by PFS
00:07:27 - 06 - For A Grotto - read by SP
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of For A Grotto by Mark Akenside.This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 22, 2026. ------Mark Akenside was an English poet and physician. Akenside's verse was better when it was subjected to more severe metrical rules. His odes are rarely lyrical in the strict sense, but they are dignified and often musical. By 1911 his works were little read. Edmund Gosse described him as 'a sort of frozen Keats'. - Summary by Wikipedia
Video Summary
AI GeneratedThis transcript features multiple readings of the poem \"For a Grotto\" by Mark Akenside. The poem is spoken from the perspective of Actaea, a nymph who describes her serene, flower-adorned cave and invites pure-hearted strangers and those favored by the muses to enter her peaceful sanctuary.