Palgrave's Golden Treasury

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Gilt bordered boards of the 1861 first edition of Palgrave's Golden Treasury. GoldenTreasury1861PalgraveCover1.jpg
Gilt bordered boards of the 1861 first edition of Palgrave's Golden Treasury.
Title page of the 1861 first edition. Frontispiece by Thomas Woolner. GoldenTreasuryTitlePage1861-2.jpg
Title page of the 1861 first edition. Frontispiece by Thomas Woolner.

The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861. [1] It was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later. Palgrave excluded all poems by poets then still alive. [2]

Contents

The book continues to be published in regular new editions; still under Palgrave's name. These reproduce Palgrave's selections and notes, but usually include a supplement of more recent poems. Christopher Ricks in 1991 produced a scholarly edition of the original Treasury, along with an account of its evolution from 1861 to 1891, with inclusions and exclusions.

Book I (Palgrave)

William Alexander, 1st Earl of StirlingRichard BarnefieldThomas CampionSamuel DanielThomas DekkerEdward de Vere, 17th Earl of OxfordRobert Devereux, 2nd Earl of EssexJohn DonneMichael DraytonWilliam DrummondW. Drummond of HawthorndenThomas HeywoodThomas LodgeJohn LylyeChristopher MarloweThomas NasheWilliam Shakespeare – Sir Philip SidneyEdmund SpenserThe Shepherd TonieJoshua SylvesterJohn Webster – Sir Thomas Wyatt

Book II (Palgrave)

Francis BeaumontThomas CarewAbraham CowleyRichard CrashawJohn DrydenJohn FletcherWilliam HabingtonGeorge HerbertRobert HerrickBen JonsonRichard LovelaceAndrew MarvellJohn MiltonJohn Norris of BemertonFrancis Quarles – Sir Charles Sedley – John Shirley – Sir John SucklingHenry VaughanEdmund WallerJohn Wilmot, Earl of RochesterGeorge Wither – Sir Henry Wotton

Book III (Palgrave)

Anna Laetitia BarbauldWilliam BlakeRobert BurnsHenry CareyColley CibberJohn CollinsWilliam CollinsWilliam CowperJane ElliottJohn GayOliver GoldsmithRobert Graham of GartmoreThomas GrayLady A. Lindsay – Joshua Logan – W. J. Mickle – Lady NairnAmbrose PhilipsAlexander PopeMatthew PriorSamuel RogersChristopher SmartJames Thomson

Book IV (Palgrave)

Poems from William Wordsworth's Lucy series. The two titles have been added by Palgrave (see last image below). GT1861LucyPoems1a.jpg
Poems from William Wordsworth's Lucy series. The two titles have been added by Palgrave (see last image below).
More of Wordsworth's Lucy poems. GT1861LucyPoems2a.jpg
More of Wordsworth's Lucy poems.
Left: page 188 of the Golden Treasury showing Keats's poem with title added by Palgrave; right: page 321 containing footnotes, the first of which acknowledges Palgrave's addition(s). KeatsAddedTitlePalgraveFootnoteGT1861.jpg
Left: page 188 of the Golden Treasury showing Keats's poem with title added by Palgrave; right: page 321 containing footnotes, the first of which acknowledges Palgrave's addition(s).

William Blake – Lord ByronThomas CampbellHartley ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeAllan CunninghamThomas HoodJohn Keats – Charles Lamb – Mary LambH. F. LyteThomas MoorePercy Bysshe ShelleySir Walter ScottRobert Southey – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth

Book V as selected by Laurence Binyon

This five-book version is republished as a Penguin Popular Classic

Matthew ArnoldWilliam BarnesF. W. BourdillonRobert BridgesEmily BrontëRupert BrookeElizabeth Barrett BrowningRobert BrowningJohn ClareArthur Hugh CloughMary ColeridgeWilliam Johnson CoryJohn DavidsonAustin DobsonD. M. DolbenGeorge Darley – R. W. Dixon – Edward FitzGeraldJames Elroy FleckerThomas Hardy – Thomas Hood – Gerard Manley HopkinsLionel JohnsonCharles KingsleyRudyard KiplingWalter Savage Landor – Hon. Emily LawlessJ. C. ManganJohn MasefieldGeorge MeredithWilliam Morris – Sir Henry NewboltAlice MeynellWilliam MorrisWilfred OwenCoventry PatmoreChristina Georgina RossettiDante Gabriel RossettiCharles SorleyRobert Louis StevensonAlgernon Charles SwinburneAlfred, Lord TennysonEdward ThomasFrancis ThompsonH. F. Trench – William Butler Yeats

Additional Poems, as selected by C. Day-Lewis (1954, Collins)

An important edition was edited by Cecil Day-Lewis, later Poet laureate. It contained 229 Additional Poems, with Books I-IV, including in this case a number of American poets.

William Blake – Walter Savage Landor – T. L. Peacock – John Clare – W. C. Bryant – George Darley – William Barnes – Thomas Lovell BeddoesRalph Waldo Emerson – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – H. W. Longfellow – Edward Fitzgerald – Edgar Allan Poe – Alfred Tennyson – Robert Browning – Aubrey de Vere – Emily Brontë – A. H. Clough – Charles Kingsley – Herman MelvilleWalt WhitmanJean Ingelow – Matthew Arnold – William Cory – Coventry Patmore – William AllinghamSydney Dobell – George Meredith – D. G. Rossetti – Emily Dickinson – Christina Rossetti – Richard Watson DixonWilliam MorrisWarren de Tabley – Algernon Charles Swinburne – Thomas Hardy – Robert Bridges – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Andrew LangA. W. E. O’Shaughnessy – R. L. Stevenson – John Davidson – A. E. Housman – Francis Thompson – Mary E. Coleridge – Rudyard Kipling – W. B. YeatsErnest Dowson – Lionel Johnson – Laurence BinyonEdwin Arlington RobinsonHilaire BellocT. Sturge MooreW. H. DaviesRalph HodgsonWalter de la MareG. K. ChestertonRobert Frost – John Masefield – Edward Thomas – Harold MonroPadraic ColumJames Stephens – James Elroy Flecker – D. H. LawrenceEzra PoundAndrew YoungSiegfried Sassoon – Rupert Brooke – Edwin MuirEdith SitwellT. S. EliotJohn Crowe RansomW. J. TurnerDorothy WellesleyV. Sackville-WestWilfred OwenLilian Bowes LyonRobert GravesEdmund BlundenF. R. HigginsWilliam SoutarRoy Campbell – C. Day-Lewis – John BetjemanW. H. AudenLouis MacNeiceStephen SpenderGeorge BarkerLaurie LeeHenry ReedDylan ThomasAlun LewisDavid GascoyneSidney Keyes

OUP Edition (1994) in six books

Edited by John Press. The poets included were:

Dannie AbseFleur Adcock – William Alexander, Earl of Stirling – Kingsley AmisSimon Armitage – Matthew Arnold – W. H. AudenFrancis Bacon, Lord Verulam – Anna Laetitia Barbauld – George Barker – Richard Barnfield – Francis Beaumont – Patricia BeerJohn Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – Thomas Blackburn – Edmund Blunden – Eavan BolandRonald Bottrall – Robert Bridges – George Mackay Brown – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Robert Browning – Alan Brownjohn – Robert Burns – George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron – Norman Cameron – Roy Campbell – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – Thomas Carew – Henry Carey – Lewis CarrollCharles Causley – Colley Cibber – John Clare – Austin ClarkeJack Clemo – Arthur Hugh Clough – Hartley Coleridge – Samuel Taylor Coleridge – John Collins – William Collins – Tony ConnorHenry ConstableDavid Constantine – Abraham Cowley – William Cowper – Richard Crashaw – Robert Crawford – Allan Cunningham – Samuel Daniel – George Darley – Donald Davie – W. H. Davies – Dick Davis – Thomas Dekker – Walter de la Mare – Lord De Tabley – Richard Watson Dixon – Keith Douglas – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – William Drummond – John Dryden – Carol Ann DuffyHelen DunmoreDouglas DunnLawrence DurrellThomas Stearns EliotAlistair ElliotJean ElliotWilliam EmpsonD. J. EnrightGavin EwartJames FentonRoy Fisher – Edward FitzGerald – John Fletcher – Veronica Forrest-ThomsonJohn FullerRoy FullerElizabeth Garrett – David Gascoyne – John Gay – Oliver Goldsmith – Robert Graham – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Thom GunnMichael HamburgerIan Hamilton – Thomas Hardy – Tony HarrisonSeamus HeaneyJohn Heath-Stubbs – George Herbert – Robert Herrick – Thomas Heywood – Geoffrey Hill – Ralph Hodgson – David HolbrookMolly Holden – Thomas Hood – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Ted HughesT. E. HulmeElizabeth Jennings – Lionel Johnson – Ben Jonson – Patrick Kavanagh – John Keats – Sidney Keyes – Thomas Kinsella – Rudyard Kipling – James KirkupCharles Lamb – Walter Savage Landor – Philip LarkinD. H. LawrenceEdward Lear – Laurie Lee – Alun Lewis – Cecil Day-Lewis – Lady Anne Lindsay – Thomas Lodge – John LoganMichael Longley – Richard Lovelace – Edward Lowbury – John Lyly – George MacBethNorman MacCaigHugh MacDiarmidLouis MacNeiceDerek Mahon – Christopher Marlowe – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – George Meredith – William Julius Mickle – John Milton – Thomas Moore – William MorrisAndrew MotionEdwin MuirPaul MuldoonCarolina, Lady NairneThomas NashRobert NicholsNorman NicholsonBernard O'DonoghueWilfred Owen – Coventry Patmore – Tom Paulin – Ambrose Philips – Alexander Pope – Peter PorterJonathan PriceF. T. Prince – Matthew Prior – Craig RainePeter Redgrove – Henry Reed – Anne Ridler – Michael Riviere – W. R. Rodgers – Samuel Rogers – Isaac RosenbergAlan Ross – Christina Georgina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Carol RumensLawrence SailSiegfried SassoonVernon Scannell – Sir Walter Scott – Peter ScuphamSir Charles SedleyGeorge Sewell – William Shakespeare – Percy Bysshe Shelley – James Shirley – Sir Philip Sidney – Jon SilkinC. H. SissonEdith SitwellIain Crichton SmithStevie Smith – Robert Southey – Bernard Spencer – Stephen Spender – Edmund Spenser – Jon StallworthyAnne Stevenson – Sir John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – Joshua Sylvester – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – James Thomson ( The Seasons ) – James Thomson (B.V.)Anthony ThwaiteTerence TillerCharles TomlinsonThe Shepherd Tony – Henry Vaughan – Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford – John WainTed Walker – Edmund Waller – Vernon Watkins – John Webster – Robert Wells – Lawrence Whistler – Hugo Williams – George Wither – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – Sir Henry Wotton – David WrightKit WrightSir Thomas Wyat – William Butler Yeats – Andrew Young

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References

  1. "Palgrave's revenge". Slate . 2002-11-07. Archived from the original on 2023-02-22.
  2. Clare Bucknell. The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture (2023), Ch. 4, pp. 110-141

Further reading

Martin Spevack, The Golden Treasury: 150 Years On, eBLJ 2012, Article 2, British Library.