Palgrave's Golden Treasury

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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. It was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later. Palgrave excluded all poems by poets then still alive.

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 (or rather an account of its evolution 1861 to 1891, with inclusions and exclusions.)

There is no definitive version of this popular classic.

1 Book I (Palgrave)
2 Book II (Palgrave)
3 Book III (Palgrave)
4 Book IV (Palgrave)
5 Book V as selected by Laurence Binyon
6 Additional Poems, as selected by C. Day Lewis (1954, Collins)
7 OUP Edition (1994) in six books

[edit] Book I (Palgrave)

William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling - Richard Barnefield - Thomas Campion - Samuel Daniel - Thomas Dekker - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex - John Donne - Michael Drayton - William Drummond - W. Drummond of Hawthornden - Richard Greene - Thomas Heywood - Thomas Lodge - John Lylye - Christopher Marlowe - Thomas Nash - William Shakespeare - Sir Philip Sidney - Edmund Spenser - The Shepherd Tonie - Joshua Sylvester - John Webster - Sir Thomas Wyatt

[edit] Book II (Palgrave)

Francis Beaumont - Thomas Carew - Abraham Cowley - Richard Crashaw - John Dryden - John Fletcher - William Habington - George Herbert - Robert Herrick - Ben Jonson - Richard Lovelace - Andrew Marvell - John Milton - John Norris of Bemerton - Francis Quarles - Sir Charles Sedley - John Shirley - Sir John Suckling - Henry Vaughan - Edmund Waller - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - George Wither - Sir Henry Wotton

[edit] Book III (Palgrave)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld - William Blake - Robert Burns - Henry Carey - Colley Cibber - John Collins - William Collins - William Cowper - Jane Elliott - John Gay - Oliver Goldsmith - Robert Graham of Gartmore - Thomas Gray - Lady A. Lindsay - Joshua Logan - W. J. Mickle - Lady Nairn - Ambrose Philips - Alexander Pope - Matthew Prior - Samuel Rogers - Christopher Smart - John Thomson

[edit] Book IV (Palgrave)

William Blake - Lord Byron - Thomas Campbell - Hartley Coleridge - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - A. Cunningham - Thomas Hood - John Keats - Charles Lamb - Mary Lamb - H. F. Lyte - Thomas Moore - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Sir Walter Scott - Robert Southey - Charles Wolfe - William Wordsworth

[edit] Book V as selected by Laurence Binyon

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

Matthew Arnold - William Barnes - F. W. Bourdillon - Robert Bridges - Emily Brontë - Rupert Brooke - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning - John Clare - Arthur Hugh Clough - Mary Coleridge - William Johnson Cory - John Davidson - Austin Dobson - D. M. Dolben - George Darley - R. W. Dixon - Edward FitzGerald - James Elroy Flecker - Thomas Hardy - Thomas Hood - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Lionel Johnson - Charles Kingsley - Rudyard Kipling - Walter Savage Landor - Hon. Emily Lawless - J. C. Mangan - John Masefield - George Meredith - William Morris - Sir Henry Newbolt - Alice Meynell - William Morris - Wilfred Owen - Coventry Patmore - Christina Georgina Rossetti - Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Charles Sorley - Robert Louis Stevenson - A. C. Swinburne - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Edward Thomas - Francis Thompson - H. F. Trench - William Butler Yeats

[edit] 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 Beddoes - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - H. W. Longfellow - Edward Fitzgerald - Edgar Allen Poe - Alfred Tennyson - Robert Browning - Aubrey de Vere - Emily Brontë - A. H. Clough - Charles Kingsley - Herman Melville - Walt Whitman - Jean Ingelow - Matthew Arnold - William Cory - Coventry Patmore - William Allingham - Sydney Dobell - George Meredith - D. G. Rossetti - Emily Dickinson - Christina Rossetti - Richard Watson Dixon - William Morris - Warren de Tabley - A. C. Swinburne - Thomas Hardy - Robert Bridges - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Andrew Lang - A. W. E. O’Shaughnessy - R. L. Stevenson - John Davidson - A. E. Housman - Francis Thompson - Mary E. Coleridge - Rudyard Kipling - W. B. Yeats - Ernest Dowson - Lionel Johnson - Laurence Binyon - Edwin Arlington Robinson - Hilaire Belloc - T. Sturge Moore - W. H. Davies - Ralph Hodgson - Walter De La Mare - G. K. Chesterton - Robert Frost - John Masefield - Edward Thomas - Harold Monro - Padraic Colum - James Stephens - James Elroy Flecker - D. H. Lawrence - Ezra Pound - Andrew Young - Siegfried Sassoon - Rupert Brooke - Edwin Muir - Edith Sitwell - T. S. Eliot - John Crowe Ransom - W. J. Turner - Dorothy Wellesley - V. Sackville-West - Wilfred Owen - Lilian Bowes-Lyon - Robert Graves - Edmund Blunden - F. R. Higgins - William Soutar - Roy Campbell - C. Day Lewis - John Betjeman - W. H. Auden - Louis MacNeice - Stephen Spender - George Barker - Laurie Lee - Henry Reed - Dylan Thomas - Alun Lewis - David Gascoyne - Sidney Keyes