World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)
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57 chapters · 6 h 26 min · English
Read by Sonia, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Craig Franklin, Foon
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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
Chapters
1 The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere 22 min 2 Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor 4 min 3 The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides 6 min 4 Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis 10 min 5 Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Payne 5 min 6 The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay 6 min 7 Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 11 min 8 The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo 2 min 9 The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold 27 min 10 Khamsin by Clinton Scollard 3 min 11 The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller 11 min 12 God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey 5 min 13 Countess Laura by George Henry Boker 21 min 14 Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 2 min 15 The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley 14 min 16 Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan 8 min 17 Ginevra by Samuel Rogers 6 min 18 Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans 5 min 19 The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron 19 min 20 Before Sedan by Austin Dobson 2 min 21 Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning 26 min 22 A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 3 min 23 The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 6 min 24 The Twa Corbies by Anonymous 2 min 25 The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis 6 min 26 The Rose and the Gauntlet by John Sterling 2 min 27 The Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles Southey 22 min 28 High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean Ingelow 9 min 29 Rizpah (17, ) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8 min 30 The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood 10 min 31 In the Engine-Shed by William Wilkins 7 min 32 Revelry of the Dying by Bartholomew Dowling 3 min 33 The Drummer-Boy's Burial by Anonymous 5 min 34 Ramon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret Harte 4 min 35 At the Cedars by Duncan Campbell Scott 3 min 36 The Sands o' Dee by Charles Kingsley 2 min 37 On the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by William Cowper 2 min 38 The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley 2 min 39 Casabianca by Felicia Hemans 3 min 40 The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5 min 41 The Second Mate by Fitz-James O'Brien 5 min 42 A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey 2 min 43 Woman by Anonymous 1 min 44 The Women Fo'k by James Hogg 3 min 45 Of a Certaine Man by Sir John Harrington 1 min 46 Women's Chorus by Aristophanes 1 min 47 The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst Bürger 5 min 48 Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray 1 min 49 The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey 3 min 50 The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed 6 min 51 Echo and the Lover by Anonymous 2 min 52 Echo by John Godfrey Saxe 2 min 53 'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen Butler 20 min 54 The Sea by Eva L. Ogden 2 min 55 The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey Saxe 10 min 56 On an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-Lampson 3 min 57 How Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous 1 min
