The Golden Treasury
Of English Verse
Published on 18. October 2018
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-1-5098-8876-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate.
It is arranged chronologically in four books which each celebrate a different era in the evolution of English poetry, from Elizabethan to the 19th century. All the greats are here, including Shakespeare and Milton, Marvell and Pope, Wordsworth and Keats. First published in 1861, it became the standard anthology for over 100 years.
This Macmillan CollectoraEUR (TM)s Library edition includes a foreword by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and is published to mark MacmillanaEUR (TM)s 175th anniversary.
It is arranged chronologically in four books which each celebrate a different era in the evolution of English poetry, from Elizabethan to the 19th century. All the greats are here, including Shakespeare and Milton, Marvell and Pope, Wordsworth and Keats. First published in 1861, it became the standard anthology for over 100 years.
This Macmillan CollectoraEUR (TM)s Library edition includes a foreword by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and is published to mark MacmillanaEUR (TM)s 175th anniversary.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 157 mm
Width: 98 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5098-8876-4 (9781509888764)
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Persons
Francis Turner Palgrave was born in 1824 and educated at Charterhouse and Oxford University. After ten years in the education department of the civil service, he was appointed professor of poetry at Oxford University. He published three volumes of his own poetry, but is best remembered for compiling The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics, which was first published in 1861. He died in 1897.
Content
Section - i: Foreword by Carol Ann Duffy Section - ii: Dedication Section - iii: Preface Unit - 1: Book I: Elizabethan Unit - 2: Book II: 17th Century Unit - 3: Book III: 18th Century Unit - 4: Book IV: 19th Century Index - iiii: Index of Writers Index - v: Index of First Lines