World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2)
Author: last_name: Various
Language: English
Year: 1904

The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as the human experience; death; immortality; and Heaven. It also includes notable excerpts from John Milton's <i>Paradise Lost</i> and Dante Alighieri's <i>The Divine Comedy</i>. - Summary by Tomas Peter