Francis Turner Palgrave

The Golden Treasury

Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language
Herausgegeben:Palgrave, F.

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Produktbeschreibung

Francis Turner Palgrave's The Golden Treasury is the best-known anthology of English Poetry ever published. Its aim back in 1861 was to teach 'those indifferent to the Poets to love them, and those who love them to love them more.' No anthology has enjoyed a longer life or wider influence. Over the years, The Golden Treasury has been updated by a series of editors who have responded to the changing tastes of the reading public. This facsimile reproduction of the 1861 edition makes Palgrave's original selection available once again for today's readers. Lovers of The Golden Treasury will welcome the reissue of what is now accepted as a landmark in publishing history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-94953-5
• 2000
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 103mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780333949535
• ISBN-10: 0333949536
• Artikelnr.: 22124940

Autorenporträt

FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE was born in 1824 and educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1885-1895. A practising poet and friend of the poet laureate, Alfred Tennyson, he is best remembered for this famous anthology. He died in 1897.

Inhaltsangabe

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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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

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