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Francis Turner Palgrave’s The Golden Treasury is a collection of classic English songs and lyrics. Summary of the Book In 1861, Francis Palgrave set about collecting the poems and songs of England, bringing them all together for the first time under one cover. Three decades later, Alfred Lord Tennyson included several other poems by the poets of the time, forming an unforgettable and irreplaceable reservoir of poetry and lyrics for generations to come. This tome encompasses the wealth of English poetry at its finest. This edition includes the four original parts of the collection, excluding the later additions by Laurence Binyon. About Francis Palgrave Francis Turner Palgrave was a British poet known for his body of work as a critic. His books also include Landscape in Poetry and Visions of England.