The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (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 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1) by Various. Read in English by Sonia; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; Craig Franklin; Adrian Stephens 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 87
• Listed recording duration: 3:52:35

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• Charles Dickens
• George Washington
• john milton
• Abraham Lincoln
• writers
• William Shakespeare
• napoleon bonaparte

Opening tracks: first 24 of 87

1. 00 - What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne — 25:20
2. 01 - To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies — 1:22
3. 02 - To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard — 3:10
4. 03 - To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton — 1:25
5. 04 - O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore — 0:59
6. 05 - Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson — 2:22
7. 06 - Napoleon by Victor Hugo — 2:41
8. 07 - Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron — 6:02
9. 08 - On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne — 2:36
10. 09 - George Washington by Anonymous — 0:43
11. 10 - Washington by James Russell Lowell — 7:36
12. 11 - Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes — 3:14
13. 12 - William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell — 3:26
14. 13 - Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps — 2:05
15. 14 - Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor — 5:38
16. 15 - O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman — 2:15
17. 16 - On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder — 1:19
18. 17 - The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman — 2:59
19. 18 - Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell — 4:23
20. 19 - Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson — 3:41
21. 20 - To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson — 2:46
22. 21 - In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell — 1:15
23. 22 - To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil — 0:46
24. 23 - George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning — 1:19

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