nightingale valley collection including von allingham william (3 Ergebnisse)

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FIRST EDITION. Half title. Orig. purple morocco-grained cloth; spine darkened, carefully recased. Ownership signature of Professor Kathleen Tillotson, with her notes in pencil on verso of leading f.e.p.: '(Bought in Store St. outside a dealer's shop. about 1958 - I recognised Palgrave's hand in notes). P.54. Is this the first appearance of Blake in an anthology? P.95 also & p.235 & 117. (& see editor's long note on 95).' Loosely inserted is an envelope (postmarked 28 August 1992) with Kathleen's ms. notes on the book and an ALS from Christopher Rix (signed Christopher) 8 October 1992, thanking K.T. for notice of the 'fascinating Palgrave annotations'. His own edition of the Golden Treasury had been published the year before. This is the first edition of Allingham's anthology of English poetry, published fifteen months before Palgrave's Golden Treasury, a similar but much more successful anthology & arguably the most influential in the English language, the selection being made with the assistance of Alfred Tennyson. THIS IS PALGRAVE'S OWN COPY of Nightingale Valley, with indications, in pencil, of the poems to be included in the Golden Treasury ('-' or 'P'), and with question marks for others being considered. There are notes in the margins of the Contents pages, and other longer annotations. Nightingale Valley was published in March 1860, the Golden Treasury the following year in July 1861. Palgrave was clearly inspired by Allingham and initially discussed the idea for a competing anthology in August 1860 during a holiday in Cornwall with Tennyson, Thomas Woolner (poet and sculptor), Val Prinsep and William Holman Hunt (Pre-Raphaelite painters). Palgrave writes that his selections for the Golden Treasury were reviewed by George Miller and Thomas Woolner, 'sometimes alone, perhaps oftener in courts of poetry'. Marvin Spevack in his 2012 article, The Golden Treasury: 150 Years On, quotes Palgrave: 'The mass thus diminished, but retaining all near admission, were gone through by Alfr. Tennyson during two days at Xmas 1860 at Farringford. The book as it stands fairly reflects his taste, as his opinion was the final verdict.' Spevack comments: 'Still, there can be little doubt that the primary and ultimate selection was basically Palgrave's.' but 'Striking is an apparent consensus in the selection between Palgrave and his main competitor (William) Allingham. Their collections have fifty-one titles in common, in percentage magnified by the fact that Nightingale Valley contains only 211 titles of which sixty are by the living poets excluded from the Golden Treasury.' This indicates that Palgrave extracted almost exactly a third of the poems available to him from Allingham. Spevack continues: 'Palgrave was, of course, aware of Allingham's anthology, and admitted to having made use of it in one instance. But it is more likely that the overlapping was the natural consequence of cultural consensus rather than commercial competition.' There are notable similarities between the two anthologies - both omit Donne and the metaphysical poets and both have 'slight representation of Elizabethan poetry'. There were also differences - for instance, Allingham brings his selection up to date while Palgrave is restricted to dead authors; Palgrave favours Wordsworth, Allingham includes four poems by Blake. Spevack comments: 'such differences are to be expected, of course, and a further comparison of the selections would contribute to a profile of both.' Historically, Palgrave has outshone Allingham by a country mile, but this volume clearly shows the great indebtedness of the former to the latter. On the basis of the annotations in this volume, it could be argued that Palgrave simply used Allingham as a guide and mentor* - winning the battle of the anthologies with an evocative title - not so much the 'cultural consensus' suggested by Spevack, more 'commercial competition'. The Golden Treasury has never been out of print and there were 28 printings by 1896; Nightingale Valley, reprinted only twice in 1862 and 1871, is as rarely encountered as the song-bird of its title. Allingham went on to publish The Ballad Book, a selection of the choicest British Ballads in 1864 which, with a touch or irony, was published by Macmillan in its 'Golden Treasury' series. Palgrave's Annotations: The six pages of Contents have Palgrave's marginal pencil marks: 1. --, 28 times 2. ?, 16 times 3. -? (or ?-), 20 times 4. ??, 5 times. At the end of the Contents, Palgrave has written '214' and '26' - presumably his approximation of the total number of poems with the number of his primary selections. The pencil annotation of the poems themselves do not necessarily correlate with the annotation of the contents. There are marks by Palgrave on 51 pages, including brief comments, corrections, queries, notes, marginal emphasis lines, underlinings and in one case he suggests editing out a stanza. 36 of the poems are coded, with '?', 'P', 'Pc', 'P?','PcX', 'PX', or are marked with a simple tick. (Some of these codes were also used by Palgrave when editing later editions of the Treasury - see Christopher Rix's edition, 1991.) There is a ten-line marginal note by Palgrave on p.23, Barthram's Dirge, from Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border concerning the phrase in the second line, 'the Headless Cross' concluding '.Only the modern antique wd. introduce such an element of romanticism'. Palgrave adds a brief note to p.71, The Haunted Palace, by Edgar A. Poe: 'Alma' and 'A.T. (Tennyson), Falmouth, 1860'. The recto of the following endpaper contains 14 lines of notes and page references. *Kathleen Tillotson also drew attention to Palgrave's copy of Bell's Songs from the Dramatists, used in a similar way to his copy of Allingham, annotated for selection and consultation: Palgrave's Golden Treasury and Tennyson: Another source, 1988.

, 288 pages with 16 introductory pages First Edition , edges to spine and corners rubbed, top corners bumped, spine just a shade sunned, preliminaries and a few other pages show a few faint spots, book in good+ condition , green morocco with blind stamped margins to covers, 5 raised bands to spine with gilt title , interior gilt dentelle, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers, ribbon marker Octavo (over 7-10 inches tall) Hardback ISBN: