Francis Turner Palgrave

Francis Turner Palgrave ( born September 28, 1824 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; † October 24th 1897 in London), was a British critic, poet and longtime Oxford Professor of Poetry.

Life

The eldest son of the historian Sir Francis Palgrave spent his childhood in Great Yarmouth as well as in his father's house in Hampstead and attended from 1838, the elite private Charterhouse School. After numerous travel to Italy and other countries in Europe he undertook in the years that followed, he began in 1843 to study at the University of Oxford, where he received a scholarship to Balliol College. In 1846 he interrupted his studies temporarily and worked as an assistant private secretary of William Ewart Gladstone, before 1847 his studies in Literae Humaniores resumed.

Between 1847 and 1862 he was a Fellow at Exeter College and also in 1849 employees of the Ministry of Education in Whitehall. In 1850 he took the appointment as Vice-Principal of Kneller Hall Training College in Twickenham, and there came in contact with the poet Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, with whom he entered into a lifelong friendship. After the college closed in 1855, he returned to Whitehall back to the Ministry of Education, was first examiner and finally of assistive Secretary ( Assistant Secretary ).

In 1884 he resigned from his post in the Ministry of Education and followed in 1885 John Campbell Shairp as the owner of the prestigious Chair of Poetry at the University of Oxford. As an Oxford Professor of Poetry he taught until 1895 and was then replaced by William Courthope.

His younger brother was the famous Orient traveler William Gifford Palgrave, the economist Sir Inglis Palgrave and the longtime clerk of the lower house (House of Commons ), Sir Reginald Palgrave.

Publications

On the other hand, his critical work was always characterized by a very fine and delicate tact, quick intuitive perception and usually a sense of proportion as in The Passionate Pilgrim (1858 ).

So already was his early masterpiece Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861 ) as his most important contribution on the development of literary taste. Thus he created an anthology of the best poems in the English language that was built solid and spacious, one hardly be surpassed sensitivity. The book included, in particular works by lesser-known poets such as George Darley "It is not beauty I desire".

His Handbook the Fine Arts Collection, International Exhibition (1862 ) and Essays on Art ( 1866) were not free from dogmatism and over- empathy, on the other hand sincere contributions to art criticism, full of striking and strikingly expressed judgments. During this time he was also the memoirs of Arthur Hugh Clough (1862 ) and in 1866, a critical essay on the poems of Walter Scott out. 1877 followed under the title Chrysomela the publication of a collection of poems by Robert Herrick, and Sonnets and Songs of Shakespeare.

After a collection of poems of John Keats (1885 ) appeared in 1889 initially Treasury of Sacred Song, before he published a second volume Golden Treasury ( 1897), who presented the work of later poets, but not enough to approach the literary critical intricacies of the first volume.

His last authored book Landscape of Poetry ( 1897) showed broad knowledge and critical appreciation, and thus became an excellent poetic interpretation of the time.

Writings

• Robert H. Palgrave (ed.): Collected Works of Sir Francis Palgrave historiacal. University Press, Cambridge 1919/22 (10 vols ).

External links and sources

• Literature by and about Francis Turner Palgrave in the catalog that German national library
• Francis Turner Palgrave in the Notable Names Database (English)
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, p 1161
• Meyers Lexicon Great people, Mannheim 1968, p 993

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