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

Genre(s): Anthologies, Elegies & Odes

Language: English

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 00 What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne Etext Group 00:25:20
Play 01 To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies Etext Craig Franklin
00:01:22
Play 02 To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard Etext Adrian Stephens
00:03:10
Play 03 To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:25
Play 04 O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore Etext Sonia
00:00:59
Play 05 Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson Etext Sonia
00:02:22
Play 06 Napoleon by Victor Hugo Etext Tomas Peter
00:02:41
Play 07 Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron Etext Craig Franklin
00:06:02
Play 08 On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne Etext Sonia
00:02:36
Play 09 George Washington by Anonymous Etext Adrian Stephens
00:00:43
Play 10 Washington by James Russell Lowell Etext Tomas Peter
00:07:36
Play 11 Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes Etext Craig Franklin
00:03:14
Play 12 William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell Etext Sonia
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Play 13 Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps Etext Adrian Stephens
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Play 14 Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor Etext Jason in Panama
00:05:38
Play 15 O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman Etext Tomas Peter
00:02:15
Play 16 On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:19
Play 17 The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman Etext Jason in Panama
00:02:59
Play 18 Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell Etext Craig Franklin
00:04:23
Play 19 Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Etext Craig Franklin
00:03:41
Play 20 To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Etext Sonia
00:02:46
Play 21 In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell Etext Craig Franklin
00:01:15
Play 22 To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil Etext Tomas Peter
00:00:46
Play 23 George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:19
Play 24 To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Etext Sonia
00:01:14
Play 25 On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons Etext Sonia
00:03:09
Play 26 Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse Etext Adrian Stephens
00:03:08
Play 27 Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew Roydon Etext Craig Franklin
00:01:34
Play 28 To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:22
Play 29 Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:18
Play 30 On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson Etext Jason in Panama
00:00:59
Play 31 To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson Etext Sonia
00:04:28
Play 32 Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:10
Play 33 An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton Etext Craig Franklin
00:01:33
Play 34 Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:18
Play 35 Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Etext Sonia
00:01:15
Play 36 Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood Etext Craig Franklin
00:01:04
Play 37 Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden Etext Sonia
00:00:55
Play 38 To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:27
Play 39 Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:23
Play 40 The Sonnet by William Wordsworth Etext Sonia
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Play 41 Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:45
Play 42 To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron Etext Craig Franklin
00:01:22
Play 43 Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:19
Play 44 Memorabilia by Robert Browning Etext Sonia
00:01:08
Play 45 Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok Etext Craig Franklin
00:03:06
Play 46 Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:19
Play 47 On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:23
Play 48 To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons Etext Craig Franklin
00:02:03
Play 49 Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:42
Play 50 Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier Etext Sonia
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Play 51 To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats Etext Sonia
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Play 52 On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Etext Adrian Stephens
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Play 53 The Lost Leader by Robert Browning Etext Craig Franklin
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Play 54 Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold Etext Tomas Peter
00:04:46
Play 55 From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson Etext Tomas Peter
00:02:00
Play 56 In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne Etext Jason in Panama
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Play 57 A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable Etext Adrian Stephens
00:04:44
Play 58 Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte Etext Tomas Peter
00:02:35
Play 59 Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:24
Play 60 To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:03
Play 61 Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Etext Sonia
00:01:52
Play 62 Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson Etext Adrian Stephens
00:08:10
Play 63 Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:23
Play 64 The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field Etext Adrian Stephens
00:02:32
Play 65 Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:37
Play 66 Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier Etext Tomas Peter
00:03:12
Play 67 Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner Etext Craig Franklin
00:02:41
Play 68 On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne Etext Sonia
00:01:20
Play 69 Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:08
Play 70 Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) Etext Jason in Panama
00:03:31
Play 71 Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell Etext Craig Franklin
00:01:13
Play 72 Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman Etext Adrian Stephens
00:02:47
Play 73 Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman Etext Craig Franklin
00:01:26
Play 74 Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:54
Play 75 Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Etext Jason in Panama
00:02:19
Play 76 Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:18
Play 77 To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell Lowell Etext Jason in Panama
00:02:48
Play 78 Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:33
Play 79 House by Robert Browning Etext Adrian Stephens
00:02:31
Play 80 Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor Etext Craig Franklin
00:01:12
Play 81 Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by Anonymous Etext Tomas Peter
00:02:59
Play 82 The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope Etext Sonia
00:01:51
Play 83 A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:50
Play 84 Chopin by Emma Lazarus Etext Tomas Peter
00:04:18
Play 85 The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier Etext Sonia
Craig Franklin
00:04:38
Play 86 Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien Etext Jason in Panama
00:06:06