The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (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 8: National Spirit (Part 1) by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 99
• Listed recording duration: 5:06:54

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• freedom
• pride
• fighting
• heroism
• nation

Opening tracks: first 24 of 99

1. 01 - The Study of Poetry, by Francis Hovey Stoddard — 29:14
2. 02 - What Constitutes a State?, by Sir William Jones — 2:08
3. 03 - Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott — 1:16
4. 04 - My Country, by James Montgomery — 2:44
5. 05 - Father Land and Mother Tongue, by Samuel Lover — 1:35
6. 06 - East, West, Home's Best: From "The Traveller," by Oliver Goldsmith — 2:28
7. 07 - Gifts, by Emma Lazarus — 2:53
8. 08 - England: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper — 2:23
9. 09 - Rule, Britannia: From "Alfred," Act II Scene 5, by James Thomson — 2:23
10. 10 - The Bowman's Song: From "The White Company," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — 1:29
11. 11 - The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Richard Loveridge — 2:15
12. 12 - The Snug Little Island, by Thomas Dibdin — 3:22
13. 13 - The Jacobite on Tower Hill, by George Walter Thornbury — 1:53
14. 14 - God Save the King, by Henry Carey — 1:47
15. 15 - Veteran and Recruit, by Edward Wentworth Hazewell — 1:33
16. 16 - The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle — 2:55
17. 17 - The Turk in Armenia: From "The Purple East," by William Watson — 1:16
18. 18 - Ave Imperatrix, by Oscar Wilde — 7:34
19. 19 - America to Great Britain, by Washington Allston — 2:17
20. 20 - Hands All Round, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson — 3:34
21. 21 - Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling — 1:56
22. 22 - England and her Colonies, by William Watson — 1:18
23. 23 - Scotland: From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott — 1:31
24. 24 - The Bard: A Pindaric Ode, by Thomas Gray — 9:13

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