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Francis Turner Palgrave

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578: 184:, MP for Much Wenlock and a friend of Gladstone. Temple, the Gladstones, who invited the couple to Hawarden Castle, and Tennyson were among the liberal-minded guests who attended the wedding. When they visited Hawarden again, her father had died, and Gladstone lost a good friend, for Cis accompanied her husband everywhere; to Aldworth and Farringford, Tennyson's houses, and to the Grosvenor family at the Duke of Westminster's house. Yet one of his greatest friends was Charles Alderson, with whose family he travelled to Grenoble, and whose familial Norfolk connections included the aesthete and doyenne, Lady Eastlake. Palgrave's flirtation with Liberalism came to an abrupt halt, when in 1885, he diverged with Gladstone over the Home Rule debate. While they lived at 5 York Gate, a mansion located in Regents Park, they took a holiday home, called Little Park, in 'Royalist' Lyme Regis, with a more Conservative inference; it belonged to his parents. Throughout 1870s the Palgraves paid repeated visits and stays at Hatfield House, the home of the future Conservative Prime Minister, Lord and Lady Salisbury. He was hugely impressed by the artistic beauty of the mansion, its 154: 22: 304:(1866) as a preface to an edition of his poems. He published a small collection of hymns in 1867 which ran to three editions, each slightly enlarged. Palgrave was also a hymn-writer using the words, on one occasion, the Elizabethan version of 120th Psalm "O Thou not made with hands" into a hymn. The highly poetical "Little Child's Hymn" held great sentimental meaning for his daughter and biographer Gwenllian. 480: 450: 597: 177:, with whom he laid the foundation of another lifelong friendship. When the training college was abandoned, Palgrave returned to Whitehall in 1855, becoming examiner in the Education Department, and eventually assistant secretary. 270:(1897) showed wide knowledge and critical appreciation of one of the most attractive aspects of poetic interpretation. But Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his 489: 276:(1861), an anthology of the best poetry in the language constructed upon a plan sound and spacious, and followed out with a delicacy of feeling which could scarcely be surpassed. Palgrave followed it with a 239:(1880–1881) has dignity and lucidity, but little of the "natural magic" which the greatest of his predecessors in the Oxford chair considered to be the test of inspiration. His last volume of poetry, 494: 465: 470: 667: 632: 627: 223:
wrote a reply supporting Palgrave and Woolner, but Palgrave was forced to withdraw the catalogue. He died in London, and was buried in the cemetery on
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Palgrave continued to work in the Privy Council's Education Department until he resigned his position in 1884, and in the following year succeeded
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He lived at the Hampstead home with his widowed father until on 30 December 1862, he married Cecil Grenville Milnes, daughter of
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Gamble, Cynthia, 2015 Wenlock Abbey 1857–1919: A Shropshire Country House and the Milnes Gaskell Family, Ellingham Press.
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Palgrave published both criticism and poetry, but his work as a critic was by far the more important. His
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A Pre-Raphaelite friendship: the correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper
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Descriptive Handbook to the Fine Art Collections in the International Exhibition of 1862
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pointed out in a series of letters to the press that the two lived together.
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while simultaneously denigrating others, especially Woolner's main rival
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The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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which was completed in quick time, and hailed as a masterpiece.
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Otton, Megan Nelson. "Palgrave, Francis Turner (1824–1897)".
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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In 1850 Palgrave accepted the vice-principalship of
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The well known controversialist 14: 668:19th-century English male writers 633:Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford 628:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford 414:Palgrave, Francis Turner (1867). 658:English people of Jewish descent 595: 588:Works by Francis Turner Palgrave 570:Works by Francis Turner Palgrave 519:Dictionary of National Biography 478: 448: 38: 554:Palgrave, Gwenllian F. (1899). 506:Wroth, Warwick William (1895). 420:. London: Macmillan. pp.  1: 205:1862 International Exhibition 197:professor of poetry at Oxford 547:UK public library membership 116:Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave 673:Writers from Great Yarmouth 643:Oxford Professors of Poetry 594:(public domain audiobooks) 558:. 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Elliott & Fry
/ˈpɔːlɡrv,ˈpæl-/
anthologist
Great Yarmouth
Sir Francis Palgrave
Dawson Turner
William Gifford Palgrave
Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave
Reginald Palgrave
Hampstead
Charterhouse
Balliol College, Oxford
Gladstone
Literae Humaniores
Exeter College
Whitehall

Kneller Hall
Twickenham
Frederick Temple
Alfred Tennyson
James Milnes-Gaskell
John Campbell Shairp
professor of poetry at Oxford
1862 International Exhibition
Thomas Woolner
Carlo Marochetti
Jacob Omnium
William Holman Hunt

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