I lived from 1788-1861.
I was from England, and am in the English category.
I influenced poet William Wordsworth.
Francis Turner Palgrave is probably best remembered today for his anthology of other people’s work. The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (1861) is certainly one of the best-known and loved anthologies in English and has been re-issued many many times.
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Francis Turner Palgrave was born on September 28th 1824 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. His father was the eminent historian Sir Francis Palgrave and his mother Elizabeth, was the daughter of wealthy banker Dawson Turner. His parents spared no expense on his education and after some time with a home tutor he attended the famous Charterhouse school as a day-boy from the age of 14 from where he won a scholarship to Balliol College Oxford in 1843. He gained a first class degree Literae Humaniores in 1847 having spent one year away from University as secretary to W. E Gladstone in 1846. An important post for such a young man.
Palgrave became a fellow of Exeter College after graduation and (from 1849) a member of the Education Department in Whitehall. He was appointed vice principal of a Training College at Kneller Hall in Twickenham but returned to Whitehall when this closed in 1855.
In 1884 he resigned from the Education Department where he had risen to the position of assistant secretary and examiner and became Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
He died in London on October 24th 1897 and was buried in a cemetery on Barnes Common.
Although Palgrave published his own poetry it is as a critic that he had most impact on the literary scene. His most famous work was undoubtedly his Golden Treasury of English songs and Lyrics published in 1861 which was very well received and did much to publicise some of the newer poets including Wordsworth. Though this was followed by a Treasury of Sacred Songs and an expanded second edition of the Golden Treasury most informed observers agree that the 1861 edition was his best work
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THERE is a garden where lilies
And roses are side by side;
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IN the season of white wild roses
We two went hand in hand:
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AS I hear the breath of the mother
To the breath of the child at her feet
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O SWEET September in the valley
Carved through the green hills, sheer and straight,
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THE monument outlasting bronze
Was promised well by bards of old;
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THE azure lake is argent now
Beneath the pale moonshine:
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Oft in midnight visions
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October 5: 1860
Before the hero's grave he stood,
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October 14: 1066
'Gyrth, is it dawn in the sky that I see? or is all the sky blood?
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July 2: 1644
O, summer-high that day the sun
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