The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)


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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 (3 hr 52 min)

Chapitres

What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne 25:20 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies 1:22 Lu par Craig Franklin
To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard 3:10 Lu par Adrian Stephens
To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton 1:25 Lu par Jason in Panama
O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore 0:59 Lu par Sonia
Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson 2:22 Lu par Sonia
Napoleon by Victor Hugo 2:41 Lu par Tomas Peter
Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron 6:02 Lu par Craig Franklin
On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne 2:36 Lu par Sonia
George Washington by Anonymous 0:43 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Washington by James Russell Lowell 7:36 Lu par Tomas Peter
Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes 3:14 Lu par Craig Franklin
William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell 3:26 Lu par Sonia
Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps 2:05 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor 5:38 Lu par Jason in Panama
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman 2:15 Lu par Tomas Peter
On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder 1:19 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman 2:59 Lu par Jason in Panama
Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Rus… 4:23 Lu par Craig Franklin
Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Ten… 3:41 Lu par Craig Franklin
To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2:46 Lu par Sonia
In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell 1:15 Lu par Craig Franklin
To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil 0:46 Lu par Tomas Peter
George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1:19 Lu par Jason in Panama
To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1:14 Lu par Sonia
On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons 3:09 Lu par Sonia
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse 3:08 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by … 1:34 Lu par Craig Franklin
To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland 1:22 Lu par Tomas Peter
Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick 1:18 Lu par Tomas Peter
On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson 0:59 Lu par Jason in Panama
To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left … 4:28 Lu par Sonia
Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson 1:10 Lu par Jason in Panama
An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton 1:33 Lu par Craig Franklin
Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge 1:18 Lu par Jason in Panama
Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1:15 Lu par Sonia
Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood 1:04 Lu par Craig Franklin
Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden 0:55 Lu par Sonia
To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth 1:27 Lu par Tomas Peter
Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Word… 1:23 Lu par Jason in Panama
The Sonnet by William Wordsworth 1:14 Lu par Sonia
Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed 1:45 Lu par Jason in Panama
To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron 1:22 Lu par Craig Franklin
Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp 1:19 Lu par Tomas Peter
Memorabilia by Robert Browning 1:08 Lu par Sonia
Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok 3:06 Lu par Craig Franklin
Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor 1:19 Lu par Adrian Stephens
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wor… 1:23 Lu par Tomas Peter
To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons 2:03 Lu par Craig Franklin
Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott 1:42 Lu par Tomas Peter
Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier 5:43 Lu par Sonia
To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats 1:10 Lu par Sonia
On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1:22 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning 3:47 Lu par Craig Franklin
Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold 4:46 Lu par Tomas Peter
From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson 2:00 Lu par Tomas Peter
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne 2:52 Lu par Jason in Panama
A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable 4:44 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte 2:35 Lu par Tomas Peter
Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1:24 Lu par Adrian Stephens
To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton 1:03 Lu par Tomas Peter
Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1:52 Lu par Sonia
Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson 8:10 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor 1:23 Lu par Jason in Panama
The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field 2:32 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck 1:37 Lu par Jason in Panama
Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier 3:12 Lu par Tomas Peter
Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner 2:41 Lu par Craig Franklin
On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1:20 Lu par Sonia
Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler 1:08 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) 3:31 Lu par Jason in Panama
Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell 1:13 Lu par Craig Franklin
Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser'… 2:47 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman 1:26 Lu par Craig Franklin
Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman 1:54 Lu par Jason in Panama
Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2:19 Lu par Jason in Panama
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1:18 Lu par Adrian Stephens
To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James R… 2:48 Lu par Jason in Panama
Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson 1:33 Lu par Adrian Stephens
House by Robert Browning 2:31 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor 1:12 Lu par Craig Franklin
Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by… 2:59 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Ale… 1:51 Lu par Sonia
A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns 1:50 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Chopin by Emma Lazarus 4:18 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier 4:38 Lu par Sonia
Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien 6:06 Lu par Jason in Panama