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PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER (1824-1897)

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PALGRAVE, See also:
FRANCIS
FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)
FRANCIS See also:
TURNER, CHARLES (1773–1857)
TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM (1775–1851)
TURNER, NAT (1800-1831)
TURNER, SHARON (1768-1847)
TURNER, SIR JAMES (1615–1686)
TURNER, WILLIAM (d. 1568)
TURNER (1824-1897) , See also:

ENGLISH

English critic and poet, eldest son of See also:

Sir Francis Palgrave, the historian, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

Yarmouth, on the 28th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1824. His childhood was spent at Yarmouth and at his See also:

FATHER

father's See also:

house in See also:

HAMPSTEAD

Hampstead. At fourteen he was sent as a See also:

day-boy to See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

Charter-house; and in 1843, having in the meanwhile travelled extensively in See also:

Italy and other parts of the See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent, he proceeded to See also:

Oxford, having won a scholarship at Balliol. In 1846 he interrupted his university career to serve as assistant private secretary to See also:

Gladstone, but returned. to Oxford the next See also:

YEAR

year, and took a first class in Literae Humaniores. From 1847 to 1862 he was See also:

FELLOW

fellow of See also:

Exeter. See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, and in 1849 entered the See also:

EDUCATION

Education See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

Department at See also:

WHITEHALL

Whitehall. In 185o he accepted the See also:

VICE

vice-principalship of See also:

KNELLER, SIR GODFREY (1648-1723)

Kneller See also:

Hall Training College at See also:

TWICKENHAM

Twickenham. There he came into contact with See also:

TENNYSON, ALFRED TENNYSON

Tennyson, and laid the See also:

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of a lifelong friendship. When the training college was abandoned, Palgrave returned to Whitehall in 1855, becomingexaminer in the Education Department, and eventually assistant secretary. He married, in 1862, See also:

CECIL

Cecil See also:

Grenville Milnes, daughter of See also:

James Milnes-See also:

GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN (1810-1865)

Gaskell. In 1884 he resigned his position at the Education Department, and in the following year succeeded See also:

John See also:

Campbell See also:

SHAIRP, JOHN CAMPBELL (1819-1885)

Shairp as See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

POETRY

poetry at Oxford. He died in See also:

LONDON

London on the 24th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1897, and was buried in the See also:

CEMETERY (Gr. Korrsnri7pwv, from Hoiµav, to sleep)

cemetery on See also:

Barnes See also:

COMMON

Common.

Palgrave published both See also:

criticism and poetry, but his See also:

WORK

work as a critic was by far the more important. His Visions of See also:

England (188o—1881) has dignity and lucidity, but little of the " natural magic " which the greatest of his predecessors in the Oxford See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair considered rightly to be the test of See also:

INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

inspiration. His last See also:

VOLUME

volume of poetry, Amenophis, appeared in 1892. On the other See also:

hand, his criticism was always marked by See also:

FINE

fine and sensitive tact, See also:

QUICK

quick intuitive See also:

PERCEPTION (from Lat. percipere, to perceive)

perception, and generally See also:

sound See also:

JUDGMENT

judgment. His Handbook to the Fine Arts Collection, See also:

INTERNATIONAL, THE

International See also:

EXHIBITION

Exhibition, 2862, and his Essays on See also:

Art (1866), though not See also:

FREE

free from dogmatism and over-emphasis, were sincere contributions to art criticism, full of striking judgments strikingly expressed. His Landscape in Poetry (1897) showed wide knowledge and See also:

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical appreciation of one of the most attractive aspects of poetic See also:

INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation. But Palgrave's See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal contribution to the development of See also:

LITERARY

literary See also:

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste was contained in his See also:

GOLDEN

Golden See also:

TREASURY

Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861), an See also:

ANTHOLOGY

anthology of the best poetry in the See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language constructed upon a See also:

plan sound and spacious, and followed out with a delicacy of feeling which could scarcely be surpassed. Palgrave followed it with a Treasury of Sacred See also:

SONG

Song (x889), and a second See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of the Golden Treasury (1897), including the 'work of later poets, but in neither of these was quite the same exquisiteness of judgment preserved. Among his other See also:

WORKS

works were The Passionate See also:

PILGRIM

Pilgrim (1858), a volume of selections from See also:

HERRICK, ROBERT (1591-1674)

Herrick entitled Chrysomela (1877), a memoir of See also:

Clough (1862) and a critical See also:

ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay on See also:

Scott (1866) prefixed to an edition of his poems. See Gwenllian F. Palgrave, F. T.

Palgrave (1899).

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