World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
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87 chapters · 3 h 53 min · English
Read by Sonia, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Craig Franklin, Adrian Stephens
Anthologies · Elegies & Odes
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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
Chapters
1 What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne 25 min 2 To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies 1 min 3 To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard 3 min 4 To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton 1 min 5 O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore 1 min 6 Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson 2 min 7 Napoleon by Victor Hugo 3 min 8 Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron 6 min 9 On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne 3 min 10 George Washington by Anonymous 1 min 11 Washington by James Russell Lowell 8 min 12 Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes 3 min 13 William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell 3 min 14 Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps 2 min 15 Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor 6 min 16 O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman 2 min 17 On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder 1 min 18 The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman 3 min 19 Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell 4 min 20 Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4 min 21 To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3 min 22 In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell 1 min 23 To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil 1 min 24 George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1 min 25 To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 26 On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons 3 min 27 Hans Christian Andersen (1805 to 1875) by Edmund Gosse 3 min 28 Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew Roydon 2 min 29 To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland 1 min 30 Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick 1 min 31 On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson 1 min 32 To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson 4 min 33 Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson 1 min 34 An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton 2 min 35 Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge 1 min 36 Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1 min 37 Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood 1 min 38 Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden 1 min 39 To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth 1 min 40 Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth 1 min 41 The Sonnet by William Wordsworth 1 min 42 Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed 2 min 43 To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron 1 min 44 Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp 1 min 45 Memorabilia by Robert Browning 1 min 46 Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok 3 min 47 Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 48 On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth 1 min 49 To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons 2 min 50 Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott 2 min 51 Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier 6 min 52 To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats 1 min 53 On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1 min 54 The Lost Leader by Robert Browning 4 min 55 Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold 5 min 56 From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson 2 min 57 In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne 3 min 58 A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable 5 min 59 Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte 3 min 60 Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1 min 61 To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton 1 min 62 Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 2 min 63 Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson 8 min 64 Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 65 The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field 3 min 66 Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck 2 min 67 Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier 3 min 68 Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner 3 min 69 On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1 min 70 Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler 1 min 71 Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) 4 min 72 Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell 1 min 73 Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman 3 min 74 Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman 1 min 75 Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman 2 min 76 Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 77 Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1 min 78 To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell Lowell 3 min 79 Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson 2 min 80 House by Robert Browning 3 min 81 Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 82 Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by Anonymous 3 min 83 The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope 2 min 84 A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns 2 min 85 Chopin by Emma Lazarus 4 min 86 The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier 5 min 87 Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O'Brien 6 min
