The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs And Lyrical Poems in the English Language (Penguin Popular Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140621245 ISBN 13: 9780140621242

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

The most famous anthology of British poetry beginning with the age of Shakespeare and concluding with that of the Romantic Poets, the book contains all that is the best of lyric poetry written over a period of 250 years. Palgrave was helped and advised on his selection by Tennyson, then Poet Laureate, whose delicate sensibilities were to have a profound influence on the completed collection. The anthology is thus a supreme example of Victorian poetic taste, and it is both timeless and enduring in its appeal to lovers of poetry.

About this title

Product Description:

This poetry anthology is thought to have exerted an influence upon the formation of literary taste in the Victorian period. It subsequently played a role in provoking a revisionist account of the poetic corpus in the early modern period - spearheaded by T.S. Eliot and others.

Review:

'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
 
'This is a collection of the best poetry in the English language.' - Denis Norden, Daily Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140621245
• ISBN 13: 9780140621242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Palgrave Francis Turner