The Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave,in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson,who was then poet laureate.
It is arranged chronologically in four books which each celebrate a different era in the evolution of English poetry,from Elizabethan to the 19th century. All the greats are here,including Shakespeare and Milton,Marvell and Pope,Wordsworth and Keats. First published in 1861,it became the standard anthology for over 100 years.
This Macmillan Collector's Library edition includes a foreword by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy,and is published to mark Macmillan's 175th anniversary.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781509888764Number of pages: 448Weight: 235 gDimensions: 158 x 101 x 23 mm
Francis Turner Palgrave
Visit the Francis Turner Palgrave author pageCarol Ann Duffy
A playwright and writer,Carol Ann Duffy is best known as one of Britain's most popular and critically acclaimed poets and currently holds the post of Poet Laureate. Her best-known works include: Feminine Gospels,The World's Wife,Rapture, The Bees and Sincerity and,as editor,101 Poems for Children,Armistice and The Map and the Clock.
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