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)

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