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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7

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The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter

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Latest episode

Oct 22, 2023

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Episodes

Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 22.10.2023
To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton 22.10.2023
Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne 22.10.2023
Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte 22.10.2023
A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable 22.10.2023
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne 22.10.2023
From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson 22.10.2023
Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold 22.10.2023
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning 22.10.2023
On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 22.10.2023
To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats 22.10.2023
Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier 22.10.2023
Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott 22.10.2023
To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons 22.10.2023
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth 22.10.2023
Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor 22.10.2023
Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok 22.10.2023
Memorabilia by Robert Browning 22.10.2023
Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp 22.10.2023
To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron 22.10.2023
Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed 22.10.2023
The Sonnet by William Wordsworth 22.10.2023
Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth 22.10.2023
To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth 22.10.2023
Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden 22.10.2023

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