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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)

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The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes poems of national pride, heroism and the quest for freedom. The collection also includes an introductory essay by American scholar Francis Hovey Stoddard (1847-1936). - Summary by Tomas Peter

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The Study of Poetry, by Francis Hovey Stoddard	Group	00:29:14
Play 02	What Constitutes a State?, by Sir William Jones	Craig Franklin	00:02:08
Play 03	Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott	Adrian Stephens	00:01:16
Play 04	My Country, by James Montgomery	Sonia	00:02:44
Play 05	Father Land and Mother Tongue, by Samuel Lover	Tomas Peter	00:01:35
Play 06	East, West, Home's Best: From "The Traveller," by Oliver Goldsmith	Adrian Stephens	00:02:28
Play 07	Gifts, by Emma Lazarus	Group	00:02:53
Play 08	England: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper	Adrian Stephens	00:02:23
Play 09	Rule, Britannia: From "Alfred," Act II Scene 5, by James Thomson	Sonia	00:02:22
Play 10	The Bowman's Song: From "The White Company," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Adrian Stephens	00:01:29
Play 11	The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Richard Loveridge	Tomas Peter	00:02:15
Play 12	The Snug Little Island, by Thomas Dibdin	Group	00:03:22
Play 13	The Jacobite on Tower Hill, by George Walter Thornbury	Tomas Peter Craig Franklin	00:01:53
Play 14	God Save the King, by Henry Carey	Craig Franklin	00:01:47
Play 15	Veteran and Recruit, by Edward Wentworth Hazewell	Group	00:01:33
Play 16	The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle	Adrian Stephens	00:02:55
Play 17	The Turk in Armenia: From "The Purple East," by William Watson	Tomas Peter	00:01:16
Play 18	Ave Imperatrix, by Oscar Wilde	Adrian Stephens	00:07:34
Play 19	America to Great Britain, by Washington Allston	Craig Franklin	00:02:17
Play 20	Hands All Round, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Adrian Stephens	00:03:34
Play 21	Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling	Tomas Peter	00:01:56
Play 22	England and her Colonies, by William Watson	Sonia	00:01:18
Play 23	Scotland: From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott	Sonia	00:01:31
Play 24	The Bard: A Pindaric Ode, by Thomas Gray	Group	00:09:13
Play 25	My Heart's in the Highlands, by Robert Burns	Adrian Stephens	00:01:27
Play 26	Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend, by Robert Louis Stevenson	Group	00:03:58
Play 27	The Execution of Montrose, by William Edmondstoune Ayton	Group	00:10:53
Play 28	Border Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott	Craig Franklin	00:01:16
Play 29	The Exile's Song, by Robert Gilfillan	Tomas Peter	00:01:43
Play 30	The Irishman, by James Orr	Sonia	00:02:28
Play 31	Turlough MacSweeney, by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)	Craig Franklin	00:02:40
Play 32	A Spinning Song, by John Francis O'Donnell	Sonia	00:01:54
Play 33	The Wearing of the Green, by Anonymous	Adrian Stephens	00:02:17
Play 34	My Native Land, by John Boyle O'Reilly	Tomas Peter	00:02:20
Play 35	Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land, by Denis Florence MacCarthy	Craig Franklin	00:02:50
Play 36	Ireland (1847), by Denis Florence MacCarthy	Sonia	00:04:36
Play 37	Ireland: A Seaside Portrait, by John James Piatt	Sonia Tomas Peter	00:01:39
Play 38	Exile of Erin, by Thomas Campbell	Adrian Stephens	00:03:14
Play 39	After Death, by Frances Isabel Parnell	Craig Franklin	00:01:50
Play 40	Canada Not Last, by William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall	Tomas Peter	00:03:08
Play 41	Canada, by Charles G. D. Roberts	Tomas Peter	00:03:08
Play 42	What is the German's Fatherland?, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt	Adrian Stephens	00:03:15
Play 43	Patriotic Song, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt	Craig Franklin	00:02:21
Play 44	Men and Boys, from the German of Karl Theodor Körner, translation of Charles Timothy Brooks	Sonia	00:03:53
Play 45	The Watch on the Rhine, from the German of Max Schneckenburger	Group	00:02:05
Play 46	Proem: From "The Kalevala" (Land of Heroes), the National Epic of Finland, from the Finnish, translation of John Martin Crawford	Sonia	00:05:27
Play 47	Parting Lovers, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Sonia	00:04:06
Play 48	America, by William Cullen Bryant	Craig Franklin	00:02:36
Play 49	Columbia, by Timothy Dwight	Tomas Peter	00:03:26
Play 50	On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, by Bishop George Berkeley	Sonia	00:01:56
Play 51	England to America, by Sydney Dobell	Adrian Stephens	00:01:21
Play 52	Our State, by John Greenleaf Whittier	Craig Franklin	00:01:55
Play 53	The Republic: From "The Building of the Ship," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Tomas Peter	00:01:31
Play 54	America (1832), by Samuel Francis Smith	Adrian Stephens	00:02:26
Play 55	"Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes	Sonia	00:01:33
Play 56	Men of the North and West (April, 1861), by Richard Henry Stoddard	Tomas Peter	00:01:33
Play 57	Our Country's Call (1861), by William Cullen Bryant	Craig Franklin	00:03:14
Play 58	A Cry to Arms (1861), by Henry Timrod	Sonia	00:02:35
Play 59	The Nation's Prayer (1861), by Crammond Kennedy	Adrian Stephens	00:01:47
Play 60	My Maryland (1861), by James Ryder Randall	Tomas Peter	00:03:13
Play 61	Dixie (1861), by Albert Pike	Craig Franklin	00:02:40
Play 62	The Flag Goes By, by Henry Holcomb Bennett	Tomas Peter	00:01:35
Play 63	The Brave at Home, by Thomas Buchanan Read	Sonia	00:01:38
Play 64	The Place Where Man Should Die, by Michael Joseph Barry	Adrian Stephens	00:02:10
Play 65	Liberty, by John Hay	Tomas Peter	00:02:01
Play 66	Patience: From "Poems of Freedom," by William James Linton	Sonia	00:01:56
Play 67	The Antiquity of Freedom, by William Cullen Bryant	Craig Franklin	00:04:30
Play 68	Hallowed Ground, by Thomas Campbell	Adrian Stephens	00:04:50
Play 69	The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of Elizur Wright	Group	00:03:15
Play 70	Rienzi to the Romans: From "Rienzi," by Mary Russell Mitford	Tomas Peter	00:03:24
Play 71	Fallen Greece: From "The Giaour," by Lord Byron	Craig Franklin	00:02:47
Play 72	Greece Enslaved: From "Childe Harold," Canto II, by Lord Byron	Tomas Peter	00:04:51
Play 73	Song of the Greek Poet: From "Don Juan," Canto III, by Lord Byron	Adrian Stephens	00:05:31
Play 74	To Althea from Prison, by Richard Lovelace	Craig Franklin	00:01:43
Play 75	Slavery: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper	Tomas Peter	00:02:52
Play 76	Song of the Western Men, by Robert Stephen Hawker	Craig Franklin	00:02:26
Play 77	The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, by Thomas Moore	Sonia	00:01:18
Play 78	As by the Shore at Break of Day, by Thomas Moore	Adrian Stephens	00:01:00
Play 79	The Hills Were Made for Freedom, by William Goldsmith Brown	Craig Franklin	00:01:08
Play 80	Switzerland: From "William Tell," by James Sheridan Knowles	Tomas Peter	00:01:18
Play 81	Make Way for Liberty (Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century), by James Montgomery	Adrian Stephens	00:05:25
Play 82	Poland: From "The Pleasures of Hope," Part I, by Thomas Campbell	Sonia Adrian Stephens	00:02:49
Play 83	The Marseillaise, from the French of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle	Sonia	00:03:23
Play 84	A Court Lady, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Sonia Craig Franklin	00:04:54
Play 85	The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England, by Felicia Hemans	Tomas Peter	00:02:01
Play 86	The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake	Craig Franklin	00:03:19
Play 87	The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key	Adrian Stephens	00:03:07
Play 88	New England's Dead, by Isaac M'Lellan	Sonia	00:02:33
Play 89	The Reformer, by John Greenleaf Whittier	Group	00:04:43
Play 90	Freedom of the Mind: Written while in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-Trade, by William Lloyd Garrison	Sonia	00:01:33
Play 91	The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell	Craig Franklin	00:07:53
Play 92	The Little Cloud (1853), by John Howard Bryant	Adrian Stephens	00:02:23
Play 93	Brown of Ossawatomie, by John Greenleaf Whittier	Craig Franklin	00:02:22
Play 94	Words for the "Hallelujah Chorus," by Henry Howard Brownell	Tomas Peter	00:02:34
Play 95	Battle-Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe	Sonia	00:03:14
Play 96	John Charles Frémont, by John Greenleaf Whittier	Craig Franklin	00:02:20
Play 97	Heroes, by Edna Dean Proctor	Tomas Peter Adrian Stephens	00:02:41
Play 98	Laus Deo!, by John Greenleaf Whittier	Tomas Peter	00:02:45
Play 99	A Holy Nation, by Richard Realf	Sonia	00:01:32

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