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


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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 (6 hr 25 min)

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The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere 22:25 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor 4:07 Leído por Sonia
The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides 6:21 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis 10:01 Leído por Tomas Peter
Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Pa… 4:47 Leído por Craig Franklin
The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay 6:06 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by Wil… 10:57 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo 2:10 Leído por Tomas Peter
The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold 26:40 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Khamsin by Clinton Scollard 2:41 Leído por Sonia
The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller 11:22 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey 5:08 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Countess Laura by George Henry Boker 21:28 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 2:02 Leído por Foon
The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley 13:35 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan 7:33 Leído por Jason in Panama
Ginevra by Samuel Rogers 6:30 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans 5:14 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron 19:12 Leído por Foon
Before Sedan by Austin Dobson 1:52 Leído por Foon
Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning 26:10 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 2:56 Leído por Tomas Peter
The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 5:39 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
The Twa Corbies by Anonymous 1:44 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis 6:04 Leído por Sonia
The Rose and the Gauntlet by John Sterling 2:22 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
The Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles Southey 21:56 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean Ingelow 9:00 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Rizpah (17—) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8:16 Leído por Leanne Yau
The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood 10:03 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
In the Engine-Shed by William Wilkins 7:01 Leído por Craig Franklin
Revelry of the Dying by Bartholomew Dowling 3:29 Leído por Craig Franklin
The Drummer-Boy's Burial by Anonymous 4:32 Leído por Leanne Yau
Ramon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret Harte 3:31 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
At the Cedars by Duncan Campbell Scott 2:52 Leído por Sonia
The Sands o' Dee by Charles Kingsley 1:33 Leído por Sonia
On the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by Willia… 2:08 Leído por Jason in Panama
The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley 1:33 Leído por Leanne Yau
Casabianca by Felicia Hemans 2:50 Leído por Leanne Yau
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4:49 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
The Second Mate by Fitz-James O'Brien 4:48 Leído por Sonia
A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey 1:48 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Woman by Anonymous 0:47 Leído por Sonia
The Women Fo'k by James Hogg 2:41 Leído por Craig Franklin
Of a Certaine Man by Sir John Harrington 1:24 Leído por Tomas Peter
Women's Chorus by Aristophanes 1:20 Leído por Leanne Yau
The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst Bürger 4:54 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray 1:12 Leído por Jason in Panama
The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey 3:20 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed 5:41 Leído por Tomas Peter
Echo and the Lover by Anonymous 1:55 Leído por Jason in Panama
Echo by John Godfrey Saxe 2:14 Leído por Craig Franklin
'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen Butler 19:34 Leído por Tomas Peter
The Sea by Eva L. Ogden 1:40 Leído por Leanne Yau
The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey Saxe 9:56 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
On an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-Lampson 3:15 Leído por Leanne Yau
How Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous 0:50 Leído por Jason in Panama