Outbreaks of Poets
Robert Crawford, 15 June 2023
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture
by Clare Bucknell.
Head of Zeus, 344 pp., £27.99, February,978 1 80024 144 2 Show More
by Clare Bucknell.
Head of Zeus, 344 pp., £27.99, February,
“... Irish independence and British devolution.At the heart of Bucknell’s book is an examination of Francis Turner Palgrave’s Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (1861), which Ezra Pound denounced three-quarters of a century later as a ‘stinking sugar teat’, but which sold very well from the outset and, as Bucknell ... ”