The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)


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The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of famous tragic poems set in different regions of the world, including Greece, Rome, the Orient, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, England, America, and the sea. It ends off with a selection of mischievous poems about women and their proclivities. The collection also includes an introductory essay by folklore scholar Francis Barton Gummere (1855-1919). - Summary by Tomas Peter

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The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere 22:25 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor 4:07 Gelesen von Sonia
The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides 6:21 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis 10:01 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Payne 4:47 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay 6:06 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 10:57 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo 2:10 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold 26:40 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Khamsin by Clinton Scollard 2:41 Gelesen von Sonia
The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller 11:22 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey 5:08 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Countess Laura by George Henry Boker 21:28 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 2:02 Gelesen von Foon
The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley 13:35 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan 7:33 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
Ginevra by Samuel Rogers 6:30 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans 5:14 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron 19:12 Gelesen von Foon
Before Sedan by Austin Dobson 1:52 Gelesen von Foon
Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning 26:10 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 2:56 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 5:39 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Twa Corbies by Anonymous 1:44 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis 6:04 Gelesen von Sonia
The Rose and the Gauntlet by John Sterling 2:22 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles Southey 21:56 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean Ingelow 9:00 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Rizpah (17—) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8:16 Gelesen von Leanne Yau
The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood 10:03 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
In the Engine-Shed by William Wilkins 7:01 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Revelry of the Dying by Bartholomew Dowling 3:29 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
The Drummer-Boy's Burial by Anonymous 4:32 Gelesen von Leanne Yau
Ramon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret Harte 3:31 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
At the Cedars by Duncan Campbell Scott 2:52 Gelesen von Sonia
The Sands o' Dee by Charles Kingsley 1:33 Gelesen von Sonia
On the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by William Cowper 2:08 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley 1:33 Gelesen von Leanne Yau
Casabianca by Felicia Hemans 2:50 Gelesen von Leanne Yau
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4:49 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Second Mate by Fitz-James O'Brien 4:48 Gelesen von Sonia
A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey 1:48 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Woman by Anonymous 0:47 Gelesen von Sonia
The Women Fo'k by James Hogg 2:41 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Of a Certaine Man by Sir John Harrington 1:24 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Women's Chorus by Aristophanes 1:20 Gelesen von Leanne Yau
The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst Bürger 4:54 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray 1:12 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey 3:20 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed 5:41 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Echo and the Lover by Anonymous 1:55 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
Echo by John Godfrey Saxe 2:14 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen Butler 19:34 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The Sea by Eva L. Ogden 1:40 Gelesen von Leanne Yau
The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey Saxe 9:56 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
On an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-Lampson 3:15 Gelesen von Leanne Yau
How Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous 0:50 Gelesen von Jason in Panama