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Ebdon's Golden Treasury

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Francis Turner Palgrave died 75 years ago. He published his first Golden Treasury in 1861, writing in the dedication: if this Collection proves a storehouse of delight to Labour and Poverty, if it teaches those indifferent to the Poets to love them, and those who love them to love them more, the aim and desire entertained in framing it will be fully accomplished.
John Ebdon reads some of his own favourite poems from this famous anthology and ponders on the original choice and the subsequent additions. Producer HELEN FRY
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Francis Turner Palgrave
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