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.
Palgrave followed it with a Treasury of Sacred Song (1889), and a second series of the The Golden Treasury (1897), including the work of later poets, but in neither of these was quite the same exquisiteness of judgment preserved.
The Golden Treasury Francis Turner Palgrave and Alfred Pearse Francis Turner Palgrave ( 28 September 1824 - 24 October 1897) was a British critic, anthologist and poet.He was born at Great Yarmouth, the eldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave, ...
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Macmillan and Co. in London, 1882.