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World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2), The by Various

World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2), The by Various

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The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic places in the world, from Egypt and India, all the way to England and America. It concludes with popular narrative poetry originating from the Greek, Roman, Norse, German, East Asian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish and American literary traditions. - Summary by Tomas PeterCopyright ciesse Art
Episodes
  • Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
    22 mins
  • The Glove by Robert Browning
    10 mins
  • How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning
    4 mins
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