• World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1), The by Various

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World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1), The by Various

By: Mc bill frank
  • Summary

  • 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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Episodes
  • Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien
    6 mins
  • The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier
    5 mins
  • Chopin by Emma Lazarus
    4 mins

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