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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)

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Number of Chapters: 57

Length: 06 hours and 25 minutes

Language: English

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

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The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere (Group)
Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor (Sonia)
The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides (Group)
Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis (Tomas Peter)
Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Payne (Craig Franklin)
The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (Group)
Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Group)
The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo (Tomas Peter)
The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold (Group)
Khamsin by Clinton Scollard (Sonia)
The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller (Group)
God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey (Group)
Countess Laura by George Henry Boker (Group)
Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Foon)
The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Group)
Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan (Jason in Panama)
Ginevra by Samuel Rogers (Group)
Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans (Group)
The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron (Foon)
Before Sedan by Austin Dobson (Foon)
Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning (Group)
A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)
The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Group)
The Twa Corbies by Anonymous (Group)
The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis (Sonia)
The Rose and the Gauntlet by John Sterling (Group)
The Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles Southey (Group)
High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean Ingelow (Group)
Rizpah (17—) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Leanne Yau)
The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood (Group)
In the Engine-Shed by William Wilkins (Craig Franklin)
Revelry of the Dying by Bartholomew Dowling (Craig Franklin)
The Drummer-Boy's Burial by Anonymous (Leanne Yau)
Ramon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret Harte (Group)
At the Cedars by Duncan Campbell Scott (Sonia)
The Sands o' Dee by Charles Kingsley (Sonia)
On the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by William Cowper (Jason in Panama)
The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley (Leanne Yau)
Casabianca by Felicia Hemans (Leanne Yau)
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Group)
The Second Mate by Fitz-James O'Brien (Sonia)
A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey (Group)
Woman by Anonymous (Sonia)
The Women Fo'k by James Hogg (Craig Franklin)
Of a Certaine Man by Sir John Harrington (Tomas Peter)
Women's Chorus by Aristophanes (Leanne Yau)
The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst Bürger (Group)
Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray (Jason in Panama)
The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey (Group)
The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (Tomas Peter)
Echo and the Lover by Anonymous (Jason in Panama)
Echo by John Godfrey Saxe (Craig Franklin)
'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen Butler (Tomas Peter)
The Sea by Eva L. Ogden (Leanne Yau)
The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey Saxe (Group)
On an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-Lampson (Leanne Yau)
How Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous (Jason in Panama)
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