A Selection of English Poetry
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV984.21.128
- Call Number
- 821.8 MAC
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Contributor
- MacDonald, Wilbert Lorne, 1879-1966
- Walker, Francis C. (Francis Cox), 1873-1934
- Place of Publication
- London, Toronto
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons
- Publication Date
- 1930
- Printer
- Turnbull & Spears
- Physical Description
- v-xi; 216 p,
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Poets, English
- Notes
- "Edited by W.L. MacDonald, M.A., Ph.D, and F.C. Walker, M.A., Ph.D."
- Contributors" full names and dates as follows: MacDonald, Wilbert Lorne, 1879-1966
Walker, Francis Cox, 1873-1935
- Includes index
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English poetry : book ii : for use in colleges and schools
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV983.76.27
- Call Number
- 821.8 JMD
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons
- Publication Date
- 1900
- Printer
- Temple Press
- Physical Description
- vii, 314 p. ; 17 cm.
- Inscription
- Bottom edge of text block:
"E.B." [written in black ink]
Front endpaper:
"Eric Brooks
Rinby
Alberta" [written in black ink]
"F.C. Brooks
A.C." [written in black ink]
Throughout book:
Study notes and markings highlighting passages of text, written in pencil and black ink.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- Includes notes and annonations on every poem.
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Bright blossoms : from "The poet's garden"
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV993.49.4
- Call Number
- 821.8 MAC
- Contributor
- Mack, Robert Ellice
- Place of Publication
- New York
- London
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Company
- Ernest Nister
- Publication Date
- 1898
- Printer
- Ernest Nister
- Physical Description
- [20] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Epigraph page:
"Phyllis Davey. July 20th 1921." [written in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- "selected and arranged by Robert Ellice Mack"
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Cherry ripe and other famous lyrics
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV974.69.43
- Call Number
- 821.8 BAU
- Contributor
- Baumer, Lewis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- T. N. Foulis
- Publication Date
- 1911
- Series
- London booklets, no. 10
- Printer
- T. and A. Constable
- Physical Description
- 37 p., [4] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 16 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- "illustrated by Lewis Baumer".
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The complete works of William Shakespeare
The complete works of William Shakespeare
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.19
- Call Number
- 822.3 SHA
- Author
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Contributor
- Craig, W. J. (William James), 1843-1906
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Publication Date
- 1890
- Printer
- Horace Hart
- Physical Description
- viii, 1350 p., [31] leaves of plates ; ill., front. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- Half-title page:
"Frank B. Street" [written in black ink]
Verso of frontispiece:
"Frank B. Street" [written in pencil]
Back fly leaf:
list of numbers and names of Shakespeare plays, written in pencil.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English drama
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan
- English poetry
- Notes
- edited, with a glossary, by W.J. Craig
- contributer full name given as follows: Craig, W. J. (William James), 1843-1906.
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The English poets : selections with critical introductions, vol. iv : Wordsworth to Tennyson
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV983.76.25
- Call Number
- 821.8 WAR
- Edition
- Students ed.
- Contributor
- Ward, Thomas Humphry, 1845-1926
- Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Publication Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- xv, 828 p. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- Spine:
"PR 1173
W 3
- 4
Cop. 4" [written in white ink]
Front endpapers:
"Library
of the University of
British Columbia
Accession No. 93926
Call no. PR 1173 W3" [printed in black ink on paper label; accession and call numbers handwritten in black ink]
"J.W. Brown" [written in black ink]
"F.C. Walker 405" [written in pencil]
"discard" [written in pencil]
"WA Thompson
UBC
Arts '23" [written and crossed out in blue ink]
"John S. Burton
2312 St. Catherines
Vancouver,
B.C." [written in blue ink]
"Fair [?] 3438X,
Arts '24
U.B.C." [written in blue ink]
Back endpaper:
Notes handwritten in blue ink, black ink, and pencil.
Throughout book:
Study notes and markings highlighting pasages of text, written in blue ink, black ink, and pencil.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- "A general introduction by Matthew Arnold"
- "edited by Thomas Humphrey Ward"
- Includes index.
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Facing forward : poems of courage
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.36
- Call Number
- 821.08 MOR
- Contributor
- Morris, Joseph, 1889-1947
- Adams, St. Clair, 1883-
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Ryerson Press
- Publication Date
- c1925
- Physical Description
- xii, 257 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"3 CUL
200" [written in pencil]
"Frank B. Street" [written in black ink]
"Frank,
Merry Xmas and
Happy New Year,
Xmas 1925" [written in black ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- American poetry
- English poetry
- Notes
- "collected by Joseph Morris and St. Clair Adams"
- Includes index.
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Favorite poems
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.113
- Call Number
- 808.81 FAV
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- H. M. Caldwell Co.
- Publication Date
- 1880
- Physical Description
- 256 p. : 16 cm.
- Inscription
- "Mrs. F. B. Street
6176 Walker Ave
Burnaby, B.C." [Handwritten in blue pen and pasted to front endpaper]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- American poetry
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The golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.46
- Call Number
- 821.8 PAL
- Contributor
- Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1824-1897
- Place of Publication
- London
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Publication Date
- 1900
- Printer
- Turnbull & Spears
- Physical Description
- xv, 459 p., [18] leaves of plates ; 21 cm.
- Inscription
- Back fly leaf:
"2.00 i
6/17 8" [written in pencil]
"Paul Eder & Co., San Francisco"
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Songs, English
- Notes
- "selected and arranged with notes by Francis Turner Palgrave"
- Plates are accompanied by thin guard sheet printed wtih descriptive text.
- Includes index.
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It can be done : poems of inspiration
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.35
- Call Number
- 821.082 MOR
- Contributor
- Morris, Joseph, 1889-1947
- Adams, St. Clair, 1883-
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- George Sully
- Publication Date
- c1921
- Physical Description
- xiv, 252 p. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"2.00" [written in pencil]
"Frank B. Street" [written and underlined in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- American poetry
- Notes
- "collected by Joseph Morris and St. Clair Adams".
- Includes index.
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The lady of the lake
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV989.9.29
- Call Number
- 821 SCO Copy 1
- Author
- Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
- Contributor
- Stevenson, O. J.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Copp, Clark
- Publication Date
- c1915
- Series
- Copp Clark literature series ; no. 4
- Physical Description
- x, 208 p. : map ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Throughout book:
Notes written in pencil in margins.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- with annotations by O.J. Stevenson
- "for use in public and high schools" -- t.p.
- Contributer's full name given as follows: Stevenson, O. J. (Orlando John), 1869-1950.
- Copy 1 of 3.
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The lay of the last minstrel
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.5.17
- Call Number
- 821.7 SCO Ver. 1 Copy 1
- Author
- Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
- Contributor
- Bowles, Ralph Hartt, 1870-1919
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company
- Publication Date
- 1911
- Series
- Macmillan’s pocket classics
- Physical Description
- xlvi, 158p. : map ; 15 cm.
- Inscription
- "Mem
P. 1 -- 1st stanza
P. 8 -- Canto I
P. 27 -- " II
P.51 -- " IV
P. 59 -- " IV
P. 85 -- " V
P. 107 -- " VI
P. 108 -- Posobell" [handwritten in pencil on front pastedown]
"Margaret Swaisland
Norm IV B [?]" [handwritten in pencil on front endpaper]
Pencil sketch of woman in profile on back endpaper
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- "Edited with an introduction and notes by Ralph Hartt Bowles" --title page
- Copy 1 of 2
- A version of this book published by Copp, Clark is available in the collection
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Narrative and lyric poems : third series
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV987.18.7
- Call Number
- 821.8 STE
- Edition
- B.C ed.
- Contributor
- Stevenson, O. J.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Copp, Clark
- Publication Date
- c1922
- Physical Description
- 55 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"Margery Dingman
Divi" [written and underlined in blue ink]
Back endpaper:
"00
30" [written in pencil]
"Nixon's Book Store
New Westminster, B.C." [stamped in purple ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- with annotations by O.J. Stevenson
- Contributer's full name given as follows: Stevenson, O. J. (Orlando John), 1869-1950.
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Narrative English poems
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV987.18.9
- Call Number
- 821.8 MAC
- Contributor
- MacDonald, Wilbert Lorne, 1879-1966
- Walker, Francis C. (Francis Cox), 1873-1934
- Place of Publication
- London, Toronto
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons
- Publication Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- v-xiv, 276 p.
- Inscription
- "Margery Dingman" [Printed, black ink, inside front cover, top.]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Poets, English
- English poetry
- Notes
- "Edited by W.L. Macdonald, M.A., Ph.D., and F.C. Walker, M.A., Ph.D"
- Contributors' given name and dates: MacDonald, Wilbert Lorne, 1879-1966.
Walker, Francis Cox., 1873-1966
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Poems of Tennyson : including The princess, In memoriam, Maud, Idylls of the king, etc.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.72.1
- Call Number
- 821.8 TEN 1904
- Edition
- Oxford ed.
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
- Place of Publication
- London
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Henry Frowde
- Publication Date
- 1904
- Printer
- Oxford: Horace Hart, Printer to the University
- Physical Description
- viii, 632 p. : front ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"W189" [written in blue ink, crossed out in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- Includes index.
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Poetical works of Alfred Lord Tennyson : including In memoriam, Maud, The princess, Idylls of the king, Enoch Arden, etc.
The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson
Poetical works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV976.251.13
- Call Number
- 821 BAR 1856
- Edition
- 12th London ed.
- Complete ed.
- Author
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell
- Publication Date
- 1856
- Physical Description
- vi, 520 p. : ill., front. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
A printed label adhered to the endpaper, with blanks filled in with black ink, reads:
"Victoria High School.
Senior Division.
Prize
for
General Proficiency
Presented by
"A friend of Education"
Awarded to
Miss Annis H. Hicks
JPMcLeod, Principal.
Victoria, June 1888"
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- Full author name given as follows: Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth (Barrett) 1806-1861.
- A version of this work, given in two volumes and published by Thomas R. Knox & Co, is available in the collection.
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The Poetical works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning : vol. i
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.110
- Call Number
- 821 BAR 1890 v.1
- Author
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
- Contributor
- Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Thomas R. Knox
- Publication Date
- 1890
- Printer
- Trow's Printing and Bookbinding
- Physical Description
- viii, 458 p. : front. ; 21 cm.
- Inscription
- Front fly leaf:
"1 ___ 3 __s" [written in pencil]
"Int
180 nil" [written in pencil]
Verso of frontispiece:
"To my Dear Friend
Robert A Wobb
Christmas 1924
Ellen TR. Wile" [written in black ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- "with an introductory essay by Henry T. Tuckerman"
- Vol 1 of 2
- A "complete edition" of this work, published by Thomas Y. Cromwell & Co., is also available in the collection.
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