The Golden Treasury
An Anthology of English Lyric Poetry from the Renaissance to the Romantic AgeBy Various
Length7h 41m
About this audiobook
The Golden Treasury is a landmark anthology of English lyric poetry, gathering poems whose brevity, musicality, emotional intensity, and memorable imagery have shaped the literary canon. Moving across centuries, it places Renaissance song, metaphysical reflection, Restoration wit, Augustan balance, and Romantic imagination within a continuous tradition of poetic expression. Its organizing principle is not narrative or historical completeness, but excellence of lyric form: the concentrated utterance, the resonant image, and the carefully modulated voice. Read as both a collection and a cultural document, the volume reveals changing attitudes toward love, nature, faith, mortality, memory, and the imagination while demonstrating the enduring power of poetic language. Although credited to Various, the anthology is most closely associated with Francis Turner Palgrave, whose nineteenth-century editorial vision gave the collection its influential shape. Palgrave sought to present poetry as a source of refined feeling and moral as well as aesthetic education, selecting works that could speak directly to readers across periods and social contexts. His choices reflect Victorian ideas about literary taste, national culture, and the formative value of disciplined emotion, while the inclusion of earlier poets preserves a long conversation within English letters. The book's history therefore belongs both to its individual poets and to the editor who fashioned their dialogue. The Golden Treasury is recommended to students, general readers, and experienced lovers of poetry alike. It offers an accessible introduction to major English poets while rewarding close study of rhythm, diction, genre, and historical change. More than a storehouse of familiar verses, it is an invitation to discover how poems become memorable—and why lyric poetry continues to illuminate private experience and shared cultural life.
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GenrePoetry
Length7 hrs 41 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1English and Scottish Ballads (Vol. 1-8) (Annotated)
2The Poetical Works of John Skelton (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
3Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems (Annotated)
4Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)
5The Oxford Book of Ballads (Annotated)
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6PREFACE.
7FIRST BOOK.
8SUMMARY.
9SECOND BOOK.
10SUMMARY.
11THIRD BOOK.
12SUMMARY.
13FOURTH BOOK.
14SUMMARY. (pt. 1)
15SUMMARY. (pt. 2)
16PALGRAVE'S NOTES.
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