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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)

Chapters

The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere

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Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor

4:07

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The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides

6:21

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Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis

10:01

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Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Pa…

4:47

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The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

6:06

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Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by Wil…

10:57

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The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo

2:10

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The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold

26:40

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Khamsin by Clinton Scollard

2:41

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The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller

11:22

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God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey

5:08

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Countess Laura by George Henry Boker

21:28

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Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

2:02

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The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan

7:33

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Ginevra by Samuel Rogers

6:30

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Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans

5:14

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The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron

19:12

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Before Sedan by Austin Dobson

1:52

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Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning

26:10

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A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

2:56

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The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

5:39

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The Twa Corbies by Anonymous

1:44

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The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis

6:04

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The Rose and the Gauntlet by John Sterling

2:22

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The Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles Southey

21:56

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High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean Ingelow

9:00

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Rizpah (17—) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

8:16

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The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood

10:03

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In the Engine-Shed by William Wilkins

7:01

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Revelry of the Dying by Bartholomew Dowling

3:29

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The Drummer-Boy's Burial by Anonymous

4:32

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Ramon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret Harte

3:31

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At the Cedars by Duncan Campbell Scott

2:52

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The Sands o' Dee by Charles Kingsley

1:33

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On the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by Willia…

2:08

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The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley

1:33

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Casabianca by Felicia Hemans

2:50

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The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4:49

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The Second Mate by Fitz-James O'Brien

4:48

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A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey

1:48

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Woman by Anonymous

0:47

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The Women Fo'k by James Hogg

2:41

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Of a Certaine Man by Sir John Harrington

1:24

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Women's Chorus by Aristophanes

1:20

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The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst Bürger

4:54

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Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray

1:12

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The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey

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The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

5:41

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Echo and the Lover by Anonymous

1:55

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Echo by John Godfrey Saxe

2:14

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'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen Butler

19:34

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The Sea by Eva L. Ogden

1:40

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The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey Saxe

9:56

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On an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-Lampson

3:15

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How Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous

0:50

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