The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1) by VARIOUS ( - )
Genre(s): Anthologies

Read by: SoniaJason in Panama, Tomas PeterJason in Panama, Craig Franklin, Tomas Peter, Sonia, Foon, Jason in Panama, Tomas PeterFoon, Leanne YauTomas Peter, Craig FranklinFoon, Leanne Yau, SoniaFoon, SoniaLeanne Yau, SoniaCraig Franklin, Jason in PanamaFoon, Leanne YauFoon, Leanne YauJason in Panama in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere
00:22:25 - 01 - Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor
00:26:32 - 02 - The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides
00:32:52 - 03 - Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis
00:42:54 - 04 - Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Payne
00:47:40 - 05 - The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
00:53:47 - 06 - Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
01:04:44 - 07 - The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo
01:06:53 - 08 - The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold
01:33:33 - 09 - Khamsin by Clinton Scollard
01:36:14 - 10 - The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller
01:47:36 - 11 - God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey
01:52:45 - 12 - Countess Laura by George Henry Boker
02:14:12 - 13 - Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
02:16:14 - 14 - The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley
02:29:49 - 15 - Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan
02:37:22 - 16 - Ginevra by Samuel Rogers
02:43:52 - 17 - Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans
02:49:05 - 18 - The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron
03:08:17 - 19 - Before Sedan by Austin Dobson
03:10:08 - 20 - Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning
03:36:19 - 21 - A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
03:39:14 - 22 - The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
03:44:54 - 23 - The Twa Corbies by Anonymous
03:46:37 - 24 - The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis
03:52:41 - 25 - The Rose and the Gauntlet by John Sterling
03:55:03 - 26 - The Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles Southey
04:16:59 - 27 - High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean Ingelow
04:25:59 - 28 - Rizpah (17—) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
04:34:15 - 29 - The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
04:44:17 - 30 - In the Engine-Shed by William Wilkins
04:51:19 - 31 - Revelry of the Dying by Bartholomew Dowling
04:54:48 - 32 - The Drummer-Boy's Burial by Anonymous
04:59:20 - 33 - Ramon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret Harte
05:02:51 - 34 - At the Cedars by Duncan Campbell Scott
05:05:43 - 35 - The Sands o' Dee by Charles Kingsley
05:07:16 - 36 - On the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by William Cowper
05:09:24 - 37 - The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley
05:10:57 - 38 - Casabianca by Felicia Hemans
05:13:47 - 39 - The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
05:18:36 - 40 - The Second Mate by Fitz-James O'Brien
05:23:23 - 41 - A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey
05:25:12 - 42 - Woman by Anonymous
05:25:59 - 43 - The Women Fo'k by James Hogg
05:28:39 - 44 - Of a Certaine Man by Sir John Harrington
05:30:04 - 45 - Women's Chorus by Aristophanes
05:31:24 - 46 - The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst Bürger
05:36:17 - 47 - Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray
05:37:29 - 48 - The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey
05:40:49 - 49 - The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
05:46:30 - 50 - Echo and the Lover by Anonymous
05:48:25 - 51 - Echo by John Godfrey Saxe
05:50:39 - 52 - 'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen Butler
06:10:13 - 53 - The Sea by Eva L. Ogden
06:11:53 - 54 - The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey Saxe
06:21:49 - 55 - On an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-Lampson
06:25:04 - 56 - How Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous

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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