World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive And Narrative (Part 2)

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

by Various

This collection of poetry, 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.

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