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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)

Chapters

What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne

25:20

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To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies

1:22

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To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard

3:10

Read by Adrian Stephens

To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton

1:25

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O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore

0:59

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Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson

2:22

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Napoleon by Victor Hugo

2:41

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Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron

6:02

Read by Craig Franklin

On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne

2:36

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George Washington by Anonymous

0:43

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Washington by James Russell Lowell

7:36

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Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes

3:14

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William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell

3:26

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Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps

2:05

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Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor

5:38

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O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

2:15

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On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder

1:19

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The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman

2:59

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Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Rus…

4:23

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Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Ten…

3:41

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To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:46

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In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell

1:15

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To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil

0:46

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George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1:19

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To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1:14

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On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons

3:09

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Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse

3:08

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Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by …

1:34

Read by Craig Franklin

To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland

1:22

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Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick

1:18

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On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson

0:59

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To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left …

4:28

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Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson

1:10

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An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton

1:33

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Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge

1:18

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Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1:15

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Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood

1:04

Read by Craig Franklin

Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden

0:55

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To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth

1:27

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Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Word…

1:23

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The Sonnet by William Wordsworth

1:14

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Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

1:45

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To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron

1:22

Read by Craig Franklin

Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp

1:19

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Memorabilia by Robert Browning

1:08

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Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok

3:06

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Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor

1:19

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On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wor…

1:23

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To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons

2:03

Read by Craig Franklin

Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott

1:42

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Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier

5:43

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To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats

1:10

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On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1:22

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The Lost Leader by Robert Browning

3:47

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Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold

4:46

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From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson

2:00

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In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne

2:52

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A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable

4:44

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Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte

2:35

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Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne

1:24

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To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

1:03

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Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1:52

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Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson

8:10

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Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor

1:23

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The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field

2:32

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Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck

1:37

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Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier

3:12

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Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner

2:41

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On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne

1:20

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Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler

1:08

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Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)

3:31

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Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell

1:13

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Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser'…

2:47

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Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

1:26

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Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman

1:54

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Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:19

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Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar

1:18

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To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James R…

2:48

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Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson

1:33

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House by Robert Browning

2:31

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Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor

1:12

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Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by…

2:59

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The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Ale…

1:51

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A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns

1:50

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Chopin by Emma Lazarus

4:18

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The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier

4:38

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Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien

6:06

Read by Jason in Panama