No anthology of English poetry is better known, more respected, more than Palgrave's Golden Treasury. In a simple chronological arrangement, without regard to theme or type, Palgrave collected for us the poems he loved best from the best loved poets in English and Scottish literature.rnBut Palgrave died nearly a hundred years ago, and, although four splendid revisions of the Golden Treasury ha…
This book delivers Shakespeare's plays and poems. Each part of the play is introduced by historical background. Almost all the plays are about the King of England. The other part of the book is about sonnets and the others Shakespeare's poems.
Even today many American critics seem unable to make up their minds about Poe. He is difficult to place or to judge by either conventional nineteenth-century standards or by those of the highly intellectualized tradition of contemporary English and American Poetry. He is almost completely sui generis and most original as the first great exploiter-the discoverer almost- of those dark corners of…