Poems Of Wordsworth Shelley And Keats Selected From The Golden Treasury Of Francis Turner Palgrave

Author : Francis Turner Palgrave
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ISBN 13 : 9781331176701
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Treasury Selected From the Best Songs and Lyrical, Poems in the English Language, and Arranged With Notes (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Turner Palgrave and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Golden Treasury Selected From the Best Songs and Lyrical, Poems in the English Language, and Arranged With Notes In the former volume of this selection our lyrical poetry was brought down to 1850 (including hence six of the greatest poets who have ennobled the century), but limited also to the work of writers no longer alive in 1861. We have hence now to retrace the stream, beginning with a period nearly corresponding to what has been called the Victorian, during part of which Wordsworth in solitary grandeur was the one surviving link between those whom we now almost think of, as poets ancient and modern. The two ages in fact overlap. And it was therefore my first wish to include in the same volume the later risen of our stars. But this plan proved impossible. A decided preference for Lyrical poetry, - to which in all ages the perplexed or overburdened heart has fled for relief and confession, - has shown itself for sixty years or more; an impulse traceable in large measure to the increasingly subjective temper of the age, and indeed already in different phases foreshown by Shelley and by Wordsworth. From this preference (whilst the national or commemorative Ode has become rare), followed also a vast extension in length of our lyrics: their work is apt to be less concentrated than that of their best predecessors, classical or English: whilst, concurrently, they have at the same time often taken a dramatic character, rarely to be found before; though Dryden's Alexander's Feast and Gray's Bard are splendid exceptions in our earlier poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.