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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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Episodes

  1. Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien

  2. The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier

  3. Chopin by Emma Lazarus

  4. A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns

  5. The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope

  6. Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by Anonymous

  7. Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor

  8. House by Robert Browning

  9. Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson

  10. To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell Lowell

  11. Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar

  12. Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  13. Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman

  14. Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

  15. Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman

  16. Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell

  17. Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)

  18. Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler

  19. On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne

  20. Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner

  21. Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier

  22. Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck

  23. The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field

  24. Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor

  25. Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson

  26. Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  27. To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

  28. Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne

  29. Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte

  30. A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable

  31. In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne

  32. From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson

  33. Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold

  34. The Lost Leader by Robert Browning

  35. On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  36. To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats

  37. Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier

  38. Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott

  39. To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons

  40. On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth

  41. Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor

  42. Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok

  43. Memorabilia by Robert Browning

  44. Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp

  45. To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron

  46. Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  47. The Sonnet by William Wordsworth

  48. Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth

  49. To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth

  50. Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden

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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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How many episodes does The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7 have?

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7 has 87 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on October 22, 2023.

What is The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7 about?

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...

How often does The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7 release new episodes?

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7 publishes daily, based on its 87 episodes since October 2023.

Who hosts The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7?

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7 is created and hosted by Various.
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