The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1), 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 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1) by Various. Read in English by Sonia; Leanne Yau; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; Craig Franklin The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic and our own sensibilities, covering subjects such as the imagination; fairies; elves; sprites; myths; mysticism; legends; time; and human life. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by poet and literary historian Charles Francis Richardson (1851-1913). - Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 133
• Listed recording duration: 8:59:21

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• life
• myths
• Legends
• imagination
• time
• fairies
• Elves

Opening tracks: first 24 of 133

1. 000 - The Place of Poetry in Life by Charles Francis Richardson — 34:29
2. 001 - Fantasy: From 'The Vision of Delight' by Ben Jonson — 1:02
3. 002 - Hallo, My Fancy by William Cleland — 6:52
4. 003 - Ideality by Hartley Coleridge — 1:18
5. 004 - Fancy by John Keats — 4:31
6. 005 - Imagination: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare — 1:11
7. 006 - Queen Mab: From 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare — 3:04
8. 007 - Oberon's Feast by Robert Herrick — 3:13
9. 008 - Fairy's Song: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare — 1:13
10. 009 - Compliment to Queen Elizabeth: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare — 1:48
11. 010 - The Fairies' Lullaby: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare — 2:56
12. 011 - Fairies' Song by Thomas Randolph — 1:09
13. 012 - The Fairies by William Allingham — 2:40
14. 013 - Kilmeny: From 'The Queen's Wake' by James Hogg — 17:17
15. 014 - The Fairy Child by John Anster — 1:55
16. 015 - Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston — 3:39
17. 016 - The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake — 34:05
18. 017 - Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? by Thomas Haynes Bayly — 1:30
19. 018 - Songs of Ariel: From 'The Tempest,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare — 3:23
20. 019 - Airy Nothings: From 'The Tempest,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare — 1:13
21. 020 - The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — 3:15
22. 021 - The Djinns by Victor Marie Hugo — 5:10
23. 022 - The Lady Lost in the Wood: From 'Comus' by John Milton — 3:55
24. 023 - The Nymph of the Severn: From 'Comus' by John Milton — 8:39

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