
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)
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The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes poems of national pride, heroism and the quest for freedom. The collection also includes an introductory essay by American scholar Francis Hovey Stoddard (1847-1936). - Summary by Tomas Peter (5 hr 6 min)
Chapters
Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Wal…
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The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Ri…
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The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hasti…
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What is the German's Fatherland?, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt
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The Republic: From "The Building of the Ship," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of El…
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Make Way for Liberty (Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century), by James Montgome…
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