World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
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Length 3 h 53 min
Chapters 86
First published 1904
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1
What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne Read by Sonia and 4 others 25:20
2
To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard Read by Adrian Stephens 3:10
3
To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton Read by Jason in Panama 1:25
4
O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 0:59
5
Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson Read by Sonia 2:22
6
Napoleon by Victor Hugo Read by Tomas Peter 2:41
7
Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron Read by Craig Franklin 6:02
8
On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Sonia 2:36
9
George Washington by Anonymous Read by Adrian Stephens 0:43
10
Washington by James Russell Lowell Read by Tomas Peter 7:36
11
Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Craig Franklin 3:14
12
William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell Read by Sonia 3:26
13
Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps Read by Adrian Stephens 2:05
14
Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor Read by Jason in Panama 5:38
15
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman Read by Tomas Peter 2:15
16
On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder Read by Adrian Stephens 1:19
17
The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Jason in Panama 2:59
18
Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell Read by Craig Franklin 4:23
19
Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Craig Franklin 3:41
20
To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia 2:46
21
In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell Read by Craig Franklin 1:15
22
To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil Read by Tomas Peter 0:46
23
George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Jason in Panama 1:19
24
To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia 1:14
25
On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons Read by Sonia 3:09
26
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse Read by Adrian Stephens 3:08
27
Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew Roydon Read by Craig Franklin 1:34
28
To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland Read by Tomas Peter 1:22
29
Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick Read by Tomas Peter 1:18
30
On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson Read by Jason in Panama 0:59
31
To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson Read by Sonia 4:28
32
Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson Read by Jason in Panama 1:10
33
An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton Read by Craig Franklin 1:33
34
Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge Read by Jason in Panama 1:18
35
Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Read by Sonia 1:15
36
Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood Read by Craig Franklin 1:04
37
Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden Read by Sonia 0:55
38
To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth Read by Tomas Peter 1:27
39
Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth Read by Jason in Panama 1:23
40
The Sonnet by William Wordsworth Read by Sonia 1:14
41
Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed Read by Jason in Panama 1:45
42
To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron Read by Craig Franklin 1:22
43
Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp Read by Tomas Peter 1:19
44
Memorabilia by Robert Browning Read by Sonia 1:08
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Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok Read by Craig Franklin 3:06
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Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor Read by Adrian Stephens 1:19
47
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth Read by Tomas Peter 1:23
48
To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons Read by Craig Franklin 2:03
49
Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott Read by Tomas Peter 1:42
50
Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Sonia 5:43
51
To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats Read by Sonia 1:10
52
On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Adrian Stephens 1:22
53
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning Read by Craig Franklin 3:47
54
Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold Read by Tomas Peter 4:46
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From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson Read by Tomas Peter 2:00
56
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Jason in Panama 2:52
57
A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable Read by Adrian Stephens 4:44
58
Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte Read by Tomas Peter 2:35
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Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Adrian Stephens 1:24
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To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton Read by Tomas Peter 1:03
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Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Read by Sonia 1:52
62
Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson Read by Adrian Stephens 8:10
63
Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor Read by Jason in Panama 1:23
64
The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field Read by Adrian Stephens 2:32
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Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck Read by Jason in Panama 1:37
66
Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Tomas Peter 3:12
67
Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner Read by Craig Franklin 2:41
68
On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Sonia 1:20
69
Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler Read by Adrian Stephens 1:08
70
Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) Read by Jason in Panama 3:31
71
Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell Read by Craig Franklin 1:13
72
Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman Read by Adrian Stephens 2:47
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Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman Read by Craig Franklin 1:26
74
Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Jason in Panama 1:54
75
Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Jason in Panama 2:19
76
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Adrian Stephens 1:18
77
To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell Lowell Read by Jason in Panama 2:48
78
Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson Read by Adrian Stephens 1:33
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House by Robert Browning Read by Adrian Stephens 2:31
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Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor Read by Craig Franklin 1:12
81
Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by Anonymous Read by Tomas Peter 2:59
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The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope Read by Sonia 1:51
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A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns Read by Adrian Stephens 1:50
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Chopin by Emma Lazarus Read by Tomas Peter 4:18
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The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Sonia and 1 other 4:38
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Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien Read by Jason in Panama 6:06
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