The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (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 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2) by Various. Read in English by Craig Franklin; Jason in Panama; Sonia; Tomas Peter; Katharina Glowalla; Adrian Stephens; Adam Bielka The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic places in the world, from Egypt and India, all the way to England and America. It concludes with popular narrative poetry originating from the Greek, Roman, Norse, German, East Asian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish and American literary traditions. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 108
• Listed recording duration: 8:07:59

Catalogue topics

• nature
• rome
• America
• art
• India
• scotland
• england
• Spain

Opening tracks: first 24 of 108

1. 001 - Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton — 4:22
2. 002 - Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare — 2:30
3. 003 - Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare — 3:08
4. 004 - To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley — 3:00
5. 005 - Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jonson — 1:17
6. 006 - Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman — 3:36
7. 007 - Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick — 1:18
8. 008 - The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope — 2:06
9. 009 - Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats — 3:42
10. 010 - Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton — 1:32
11. 011 - On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt — 2:21
12. 012 - Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore — 1:10
13. 013 - The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe — 5:25
14. 014 - The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) — 2:32
15. 015 - City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham — 1:27
16. 016 - The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey — 1:25
17. 017 - An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail — 2:18
18. 018 - Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden — 1:25
19. 019 - The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant — 3:10
20. 020 - Mist by Henry David Thoreau — 1:03
21. 021 - The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day — 3:44
22. 022 - Smoke by Henry David Thoreau — 1:10
23. 023 - The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North) — 1:17
24. 024 - A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman — 2:39

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