Francis Turner Palgrave

The Golden Treasury (eBook, PDF)

Selected From the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged With Notes

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Produktbeschreibung

This also is all he can plead in regard to a point even more liable to question — what degree of merit should give rank among the Best. That a poem shall be worthy of the writer's genius, — that it shall reach a perfection commensurate with its aim, — that we should require fin ish in proportion to brevity, — that passion, colour, and originality cannot atone for serious imperfections in clearness, unity or truth, — that a few good lines do not make a good poem, that popular estimate is serviceable as a guidepost more than as a compass, — above all, that excellence should be looked for rather in the whole than in the parts, — such and other such canons have been always steadily regarded. He may however add that the pieces Chosen, and a far larger number rejected, have been carefully and repeatedly considered; and that he has been aided throughout by two friends of independent and exercised judgment, besides the distinguished person addressed in the Dedication. It is hoped that by this procedure the volume has been freed from that one-sided ness which must beset individual decisions — but for the final choice the Editor is alone responsible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780243846054
• Artikelnr.: 59011536

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