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‘When it was first published in 1861, [Palgrave’s Golden Treasury] was immediately praised for distilling the British Lyric tradition and almost a centruy later... it kept its place – a book created during a comparatively stable and centered poetic age, which contributed massively to what has been widely accepted, and sometimes interestingly challenged, as ‘the canon’. From the foreword by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion
The aim of Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language was to teach 'those indifferent to the Poets to love them, and those who love them to love them more'.
By the Second World War, 650,000 copies had been printed and after almost a century it was still selling around 10,000 copies a year, in regularly updated editions. No other anthology has enjoyed a longer life or wider influence.
The original edition was dedicated to the then poet laureate, Tennyson, who led Palgrave to begin the work. In the same vein, this commemorative edition has a foreword by Andrew Motion, which discusses the making, reception and effect of the anthology.
This facsimile reproduction of the 1861 edition makes Palgrave's original selection available again for the first time. It remains a rich and timeless collection of lyric poetry not only for those interested in the period but for any serious poetry reader.
About The Author FRANCES TURNER PALGRAVE was born in 1834 and educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1885-1895. A practicing poet and friend of the poet laureate, Alfred Tennyson, he died in 1897.
CONTENTS: Frontispiece - Foreword; A. Motion, Poet Laureate - Dedication - Preface - Book I - Book II - Book III - Book IV - Notes - Index of Writers - Index of First Lines
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