World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various

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The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as admiration; love's nature; love's beginnings; and wooing and winning. It also includes an introductory essay by American poet John Vance Cheney (1848-1922). Summary by Tomas Peter.

  1. Episode 1

    When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time: Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare

    World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various

  2. Episode 2

    Daybreak by Sir William Davenant

    World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various

  3. Episode 3

    Shall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare

    World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various

  4. Episode 4

    The Portrait by Thomas Heywood

    World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various

  5. Episode 5

    Give Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

    World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various

  6. Episode 6

    To His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton

    World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various

  7. Episode 7

    The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William Shakespeare

    World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various

  8. Episode 8

    There Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by Anonymous

    World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1), The by Various

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The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as admiration; love's nature; love's beginnings; and wooing and winning. It also includes an introductory essay by American poet John Vance Cheney (1848-1922). Summary by Tomas Peter.

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