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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)

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The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic and our own sensibilities, covering subjects such as the imagination; fairies; elves; sprites; myths; mysticism; legends; time; and human life. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by poet and literary historian Charles Francis Richardson (1851-1913). - Summary by Tomas Peter (8 hr 59 min)

Chapters

The Place of Poetry in Life by Charles Francis Richardson

34:29

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Fantasy: From 'The Vision of Delight' by Ben Jonson

1:02

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Hallo, My Fancy by William Cleland

6:52

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Ideality by Hartley Coleridge

1:18

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Fancy by John Keats

4:31

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Imagination: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespe…

1:11

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Queen Mab: From 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare

3:04

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Oberon's Feast by Robert Herrick

3:13

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Fairy's Song: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakes…

1:13

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Compliment to Queen Elizabeth: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 2 …

1:48

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The Fairies' Lullaby: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 3 by Willia…

2:56

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Fairies' Song by Thomas Randolph

1:09

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The Fairies by William Allingham

2:40

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Kilmeny: From 'The Queen's Wake' by James Hogg

17:17

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The Fairy Child by John Anster

1:55

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Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston

3:39

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The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake

34:05

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Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? by Thomas Haynes Bayly

1:30

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Songs of Ariel: From 'The Tempest,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

3:23

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Airy Nothings: From 'The Tempest,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

1:13

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The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3:15

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The Djinns by Victor Marie Hugo

5:10

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The Lady Lost in the Wood: From 'Comus' by John Milton

3:55

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The Nymph of the Severn: From 'Comus' by John Milton

8:39

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Tam o' Shanter: A Tale by Robert Burns

11:52

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The Lore-Lei by Heinrich Heine

1:26

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The Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2:01

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The Sirens' Song: From 'Inner Temple Masque' by William Browne

1:20

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The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold

7:33

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The Flitting of the Fairies: From 'The End of Elfintown' by Jane Barlow

1:16

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A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2:46

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A Transformation: From 'The Metamorphoses' by Ovid

2:00

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The Comet by Charles Sangster

3:16

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The Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Robert Buchanan

9:49

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The Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

7:32

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The King's Highway by Harriet Waters Preston

1:51

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Rhœcus by James Russell Lowell

8:28

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Una and the Red Crosse Knight: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edm…

4:12

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Una and the Lion: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto III by Edmund Spenser

3:54

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The Bower of Bliss: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto XII by Edmund Spen…

4:38

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The Cave of Sleep: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser

1:35

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The Castle of Indolence (from Canto I) by James Thomson

16:20

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Outward Bound by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1:20

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The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

8:37

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

33:49

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Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe

5:59

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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

8:35

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Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5:24

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The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe

2:35

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The Sunken City by Wilhelm Müller

2:04

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The Walker of the Snow by Charles Dawson Shanly

3:05

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning

16:39

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Quatrains by William Hamilton Hayne

1:18

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A Yellow Pansy by Helen Gray Cone

1:17

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Echo and Silence by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges

1:27

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Sherwood by Alfred Noyes

4:16

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Far-Away by Dr. George Sigerson

2:02

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Time the Supreme: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young

4:11

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To-morrow: From 'Irene' by Samuel Johnson

1:24

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Three Days by James Roberts Gilmore

1:13

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Procrastination: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young

3:06

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Ave atque Vale by Rosamund Marriott Watson

1:49

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The Ballad of Dead Ladies by François Villon

2:10

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The Approach of Age: Sonnet XII by William Shakespeare

1:24

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The Old Year and the New by William Cleaver Wilkinson

3:02

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The Death of the Old Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

3:35

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A Fancy from Fontenelle by Austin Dobson

1:26

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What Is the Grass?: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

3:38

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The Petrified Fern by Mary L. Bolles Branch

2:38

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The Making of Man by John White Chadwick

1:25

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The Ascent of Man by Rossiter W. Raymond

2:00

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Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám

24:52

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Time (An Enigma) by Jonathan Swift

0:43

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This Life by William Drummond

1:01

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The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton

1:44

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Retribution by Friedrich von Logau

0:53

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The Lye by Sir Walter Raleigh

3:31

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The Generous Air by Palladas

1:03

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Good Life, Long Life by Ben Jonson

0:59

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Life by Richard Henry Wilde

1:41

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Where Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh Clough

2:10

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Life by George Herbert

1:25

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Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1:23

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The Rose-Bush by Johann Ludwig Uhland

1:38

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History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

1:25

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My Quaker Grandmothers by Oliver Huckel

1:00

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Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition by Horace Smith

5:17

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London Bridge by Frederic Edward Weatherly

2:06

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The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant

2:50

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L'Allegro by John Milton

7:36

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Dining: From 'Lucile' by Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith)

2:01

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The Family Skeleton: From 'Modern Love' by George Meredith

1:40

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The Epicure by Anacreon

2:16

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The Indian Weed by Anonymous

1:30

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Smoking Spiritualized by Ralph Erskine

1:30

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Without and Within by Pietro Metastasio

0:51

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Il Penseroso by John Milton

9:02

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Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:56

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The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney

2:18

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The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge

6:12

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Fame: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope

1:48

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Pelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Hengist Horne

2:31

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Enid's Song: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1:22

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Fortune: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck

2:00

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Opportunity by William Blake

0:50

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Opportunity by John James Ingalls

1:23

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Undeveloped Lives by William E.H. Lecky

2:03

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Augury by Edith M. Thomas

1:17

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'Keep Sweet and Keep Movin'' by Robert J. Burdette

2:41

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A Tear by Samuel Rogers

1:47

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The Jester's Sermon by George Walter Thornbury

3:47

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The Fool's Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill

2:44

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At Midsummer by Louise Chandler Moulton

1:34

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A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier

1:17

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Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson

1:20

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Proem: From 'The Isles of the Amazons,' Part III by Joaquin Miller

1:40

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A California Christmas by Joaquin Miller

1:19

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Yussouf by James Russell Lowell

2:33

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Beauty: From 'An Hymne in Honor of Beautie' by Edmund Spenser

2:35

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Beauty Unadorned: From 'Elegies,' Book I, II by Propertius

1:55

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Fortune by Sophocles

1:00

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Greatness: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope

2:20

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Perseverance by Leonardo da Vinci

1:03

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The One White Hair by Walter Savage Landor

1:33

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Growing Gray by Austin Dobson

2:01

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Healthful Old Age: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

1:02

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Quack Medicines: From 'The Borough' by George Crabbe

4:03

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The Three Warnings by Hester Lynch Thrale

7:02

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Old Age and Death: From 'Verses Upon His Divine Poesy' by Edmund Waller

1:16

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The Ruling Passion: From 'Moral Essays,' Epistle I by Alexander Pope

3:53

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The Will by Dr. John Donne

3:56

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To a Skeleton by Anonymous

2:53

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The True Philosophy of Life by William Dunbar

2:36

Read by Craig Franklin