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