The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)
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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 (5 hr 35 min)
Chapters
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous
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I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe
1:33
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Epitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at …
2:07
Read by Tomas Peter
The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck Gilbert
4:59
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To the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck Gilbert
1:19
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The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.)
7:53
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What Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell Lo…
3:40
Read by Craig Franklin
The One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wen…
7:04
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Plain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by…
2:35
Read by Leanne Yau
Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Rober…
8:19
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The Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form …
1:11
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The Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (…
3:55
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