The Folio Golden Treasury

This anthology of English songs and lyrical poems revises Francis Palgrave's 1861 Golden Treasury and extends it through the twentieth century. The selection runs from Tudor lyrics such as those of Thomas Wyatt to later poets including Thom Gunn, with emphasis on shorter songs rather than long narrative verse. Typical subjects are love, time, landscape, mortality, and music. The poems are arranged as a reading sequence with an index of first lines, not as a biographical survey of each writer. The volume is a lyric treasury, not a critical history of English poetry.

Quarter bound in black leather, yellow cloth boards with a pattern by Brett in black. Brown endleaves. Black slipcase decorated in gold.