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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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Oct 22, 2023

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Episodes

Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood 22.10.2023
Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 22.10.2023
Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge 22.10.2023
An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton 22.10.2023
Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson 22.10.2023
To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson 22.10.2023
On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson 22.10.2023
Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick 22.10.2023
To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland 22.10.2023
Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew Roydon 22.10.2023
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse 22.10.2023
On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons 22.10.2023
To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 22.10.2023
George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 22.10.2023
To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil 22.10.2023
In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell 22.10.2023
To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 22.10.2023
Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 22.10.2023
Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell 22.10.2023
The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman 21.10.2023
On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder 21.10.2023
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman 21.10.2023
Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor 21.10.2023
Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps 21.10.2023
William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell 21.10.2023

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