Description
“The Golden Treasury” is not actually a work by Francis T. Palgrave; rather, it is an anthology of English poetry compiled by him. Francis Turner Palgrave was an English poet and anthologist who first published this collection in 1861. “The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics” is its full title.
The anthology features a selection of English poems and songs from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Palgrave curated these works with the aim of presenting the best of English poetry for readers to enjoy. It includes a wide range of poets, from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Robert Burns and William Wordsworth, among others.
“The Golden Treasury” has been widely regarded as an important work in the canon of English poetry anthologies, and it has been reprinted and revised numerous times over the years. It remains a valuable resource for those interested in classic English poetry.
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