The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (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 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1) by Various. Read in English by Sonia; Leanne Yau; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; Craig Franklin; Foon The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of famous tragic poems set in different regions of the world, including Greece, Rome, the Orient, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, England, America, and the sea. It ends off with a selection of mischievous poems about women and their proclivities. The collection also includes an introductory essay by folklore scholar Francis Barton Gummere (1855-1919). - Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 57
• Listed recording duration: 6:25:58

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• humor
• rome
• women
• tragedy
• death
• America
• Shakespeare

Opening tracks: first 24 of 57

1. 00 - The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere — 22:25
2. 01 - Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor — 4:07
3. 02 - The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides — 6:21
4. 03 - Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis — 10:01
5. 04 - Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Payne — 4:47
6. 05 - The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay — 6:06
7. 06 - Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare — 10:57
8. 07 - The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo — 2:10
9. 08 - The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold — 26:40
10. 09 - Khamsin by Clinton Scollard — 2:41
11. 10 - The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller — 11:22
12. 11 - God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey — 5:08
13. 12 - Countess Laura by George Henry Boker — 21:28
14. 13 - Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare — 2:02
15. 14 - The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley — 13:35
16. 15 - Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan — 7:33
17. 16 - Ginevra by Samuel Rogers — 6:30
18. 17 - Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans — 5:14
19. 18 - The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron — 19:12
20. 19 - Before Sedan by Austin Dobson — 1:52
21. 20 - Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning — 26:10
22. 21 - A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare — 2:56
23. 22 - The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare — 5:39
24. 23 - The Twa Corbies by Anonymous — 1:44

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