Table of Contents

Section - i: Foreword by Carol Ann Duffy Section - ii: Dedication Section - iii: Preface Unit - 1: Book I: Elizabethan Unit - 2: Book II: 17th Century Unit - 3: Book III: 18th Century Unit - 4: Book IV: 19th Century Index - iiii: Index of Writers Index - v: Index of First Lines

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About the Author

Francis Turner Palgrave was born in 1824 and educated at Charterhouse and Oxford University.
After ten years in the education department of the civil service, he was appointed Professor of poetry at
Oxford University. He published three volumes of his own poetry but is best remembered for compiling
The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics which was first published in 1861. He died in 1897.