The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2), credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2) by Various. Read in English by Craig Franklin; Sonia; Tomas Peter; Leanne Yau; Jason in Panama The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as the human experience; death; immortality; and Heaven. It also includes notable excerpts from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 119
• Listed recording duration: 5:20:59

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• religion
• Christianity
• afterlife
• death
• faith
• God
• Jesus

Opening tracks: first 24 of 119

1. 001 - The Poet's Theme: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book I by John Milton — 2:10
2. 002 - The Temptation: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton — 11:13
3. 003 - The Fall: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton — 4:06
4. 004 - Intercession and Redemption: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton — 4:53
5. 005 - Eve's Lament: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton — 1:45
6. 006 - Eve to Adam: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton — 1:14
7. 007 - The Departure from Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XII by John Milton — 1:28
8. 008 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 2:18
9. 009 - The Gifts of God by George Herbert — 1:39
10. 010 - Duty by Ellen Sturgis Hooper — 0:47
11. 011 - Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth — 3:40
12. 012 - Self-Inquiry by Isaac Watts — 1:05
13. 013 - The Three Enemies by Christina Georgina Rossetti — 2:42
14. 014 - Said I Not So? by George Herbert — 1:42
15. 015 - Nothing but Leaves by Lucy E. Akerman — 1:45
16. 016 - The World by Frederick William Faber — 3:14
17. 017 - The Cry of the Human by Elizabeth Barrett Browning — 7:03
18. 018 - The Sifting of Peter (A Folk-Song) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 2:26
19. 019 - Vanity by Anonymous — 1:25
20. 020 - Different Minds by Richard Chenevix Trench — 1:09
21. 021 - My Recovery by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock — 2:01
22. 022 - The Ladder of Saint Augustine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 3:05
23. 023 - Saint Christopher by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik — 2:46
24. 024 - Scorn Not the Least by Robert Southwell — 2:05

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