Francis Turner Palgrave

The Golden Treasury (eBook, ePUB)

Of English Verse

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Collector's Library edition includes a foreword by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and is published to mark Macmillan's 175th anniversary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509898794
• Artikelnr.: 54349172

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Frontispiece Foreword; A. Motion , Poet Laureate Dedication Preface Book I Book II Book III Book IV Notes Index of Writers Index of First Lines

Rezensionen

'The theme of National Poetry Day...is fresh voices, but there's an opportunity to celebrate some old ones, too. Palgrave, Macmillan's newly renamed academic list, is reissuing a facsimile edition of the book from which the list takes its name, Palgrave's Golden Treasury. First published in 1861 at the suggestion of Tennyson, then Poet Laureate, the anthology had sold 650,000 copies by 1939. The reissue has a foreword by the present Laureate, Andrew Motion.' - The Literator, The Independent

'I'm not sure that any book has ever truly changed my life in the sense of dramatically altering its course, but I can think of one that determined it, and that's Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. It was my mother's book and she read to me from it, as I imagine, in the dark. It was from Palgrave that I learned that literature had a sound, that language mattered more than story, that rhythm haunted the imagination, and that loveand grief and loneliness interested me more than any other subject.' - Howard Jacobson, The Guardian