Francis Palgrave: 5 books

This magisterial 1831 study sweeps the reader along the current of history. Beginning with the ancient peoples of Britain and the provinces under Rome, the author covers the ancient religion of the Anglo-Saxons, the Danish invasions, the advance of culture under Alfred, the tempestuous reign of Edmund, and the arrival of William the Conqueror.

The Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate. It is arranged chronologically in four books which each...

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. This book in its progress has recalled often to my memory a man with whose friendship we were once honoured, to whom no region of English Literature was unfamiliar, and who, whilst rich in all the noble gifts of Nature, was most eminently...

Those who most admire the Poet from whose many pieces a selection only is here offered, will, it is probable, feel most strongly (with the Editor) that excuse is needed for an attempt of an obviously presumptuous nature. The choice made by any selector invites challenge: the admission, perhaps, of some...