The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (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 8: National Spirit (Part 2) 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 second of two parts, includes poems about the upheaving times of war and the calls for peace. - Summary by Sonia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 124
• Listed recording duration: 6:55:16

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• slavery
• war
• battles
• Scottish
• Ballads
• peace
• antiquity

Opening tracks: first 24 of 124

1. 001 - Battle of the Angels, from "Paradise Lost", Book VI, by Milton — 6:36
2. 002 - The destruction of Sennacherib, from "Hebrew Melodies", by Lord Byron — 2:05
3. 003 - The School of War, from "Tamburlaine", by Christopher Marlowe — 5:43
4. 004 - Catiline to the Roman Army, from "Catiline", Act V. Scene 2, by George Croly — 2:55
5. 005 - Caractacus, by Bernard Barton — 4:29
6. 006 - Sempronius' Speech for War, from "Cato", Act II. Scene 1, by Joseph Addison — 1:47
7. 007 - The Death of Leonidas, by George Croly — 4:33
8. 008 - Song of the Greeks, 1821, by Thomas Campbell — 3:07
9. 009 - Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck — 5:59
10. 010 - Harmosan, by Richard Chenevix Trench — 2:19
11. 011 - Battle Scene, from "The Cid", translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby — 1:58
12. 012 - The Lord of Butrago, translated from the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart — 2:29
13. 013 - Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger by Sir Frank C. Lascelles — 8:22
14. 014 - A Danish Barrow on the East Devon Coast, by Francis Turner Palgrave — 2:25
15. 015 - Hermann and Thusnelda, from the German of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock — 2:05
16. 016 - The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, from the German of Michael Altenburg — 1:40
17. 017 - Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timothy Brooks — 3:42
18. 018 - The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W. Raymond — 1:34
19. 019 - Bingen on the Rhine, by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton — 5:19
20. 020 - Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell — 2:06
21. 021 - Ivry, 1590, by Lord Macaulay — 5:51
22. 022 - Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning — 2:25
23. 023 - The Bronze Statue of Napoleon, from the French of Auguste Barbier — 8:39
24. 024 - On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harrington — 1:55

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