The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (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 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2) by Various. Read in English by Craig Franklin; Sonia; Leanne Yau; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; Foon The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a broad and diverse selection of light and comic verse on miscellaneous topics, including religion, the laboring classes, romance, government, food, the human body, animals, the natural world, and everyday hobbies. Also included are parodies and imitations, ingenuities and oddities, and nonsense verse, all using inventive techniques such as puns, wordplay, alliteration, doggerel, adventurous rhyming, and dialect. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 123
• Listed recording duration: 5:35:51

Catalogue topics

• comedy
• poetry
• humor
• nature
• religion
• romance
• animals
• parody

Opening tracks: first 24 of 123

1. 001 - Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by Anonymous — 2:22
2. 002 - King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous — 6:42
3. 003 - Gluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the Younger — 1:58
4. 004 - I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe — 1:33
5. 005 - Good Ale by John Still — 2:35
6. 006 - The Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) — 3:36
7. 007 - The Vicar of Bray by Anonymous — 4:52
8. 008 - Hudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel Butler — 2:09
9. 009 - The Fine Old English Gentleman by Anonymous — 2:48
10. 010 - Toby Tosspot by George Colman the Younger — 4:01
11. 011 - The Milkmaid by Jeffreys Taylor — 2:47
12. 012 - Morning Meditations by Thomas Hood — 2:23
13. 013 - Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith — 1:34
14. 014 - Old Grimes by Albert G. Greene — 2:34
15. 015 - Elegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith — 1:46
16. 016 - The Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell — 2:05
17. 017 - Faithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas Hood — 3:30
18. 018 - Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood — 3:31
19. 019 - Orator Puff by Thomas Moore — 2:11
20. 020 - The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace Smith — 2:40
21. 021 - The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper — 11:13
22. 022 - Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge — 2:22
23. 023 - The Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) — 3:51
24. 024 - Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin Franklin — 3:48

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