World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)
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The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes poems of national pride, heroism and the quest for freedom. The collection also includes an introductory essay by American scholar Francis Hovey Stoddard (1847-1936). - Summary by Tomas Peter
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Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott
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The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Richard Loveridge
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The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
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Men and Boys, from the German of Karl Theodor Körner, translation of Charles Timothy Brooks
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Proem: From "The Kalevala" (Land of Heroes), the National Epic of Finland, from the Finnish, translation of John Martin Crawford
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On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, by Bishop George Berkeley
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The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of Elizur Wright
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Freedom of the Mind: Written while in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-Trade, by William Lloyd Garrison
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