The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
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Contents
- Preface
- Anonymous
- Robert Mannyng of Brunne
- John Barbour
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Thomas Hoccleve
- John Lydgate
- King James I of Scotland
- Robert Henryson
- William Dunbar
- Anonymous
- John Skelton
- Stephen Hawes
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- Nicholas Grimald
- Alexander Scott
- Robert Wever
- Richard Edwardes
- George Gascoigne
- Alexander Montgomerie
- William Stevenson
- Anonymous (Scottish)
- Nicholas Breton
- Nicholas Breton?
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Edmund Spenser
- John Lyly
- Anthony Munday
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
- Thomas Lodge
- George Peele
- Robert Greene
- Alexander Hume
- George Chapman
- Robert Southwell
- Henry Constable
- Samuel Daniel
- Mark Alexander Boyd
- Joshua Sylvester
- Michael Drayton
- Christopher Marlowe
- William Shakespeare
- Richard Rowlands
- Thomas Nashe
- Thomas Campion
- John Reynolds
- Sir Henry Wotton
- Sir John Davies
- Sir Robert Ayton
- Ben Jonson
- John Donne
- Richard Barnefield
- Thomas Dekker
- Thomas Heywood
- John Fletcher
- John Webster
- William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
- Phineas Fletcher
- Sir John Beaumont
- William Drummond, of Hawthornden
- Giles Fletcher
- Francis Beaumont
- John Ford
- George Wither
- William Browne, of Tavistock
- Robert Herrick
- Francis Quarles
- Henry King, Bishop of Chichester
- George Herbert
- James Shirley
- Thomas Carew
- Jasper Mayne
- William Habington
- Thomas Randolph
- Sir William Davenant
- Edmund Waller
- John Milton
- From ‘Comus’
- Sir John Suckling
- Sir Richard Fanshawe
- William Cartwright
- James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
- Thomas Jordan
- Richard Crashaw
- Richard Lovelace
- Abraham Cowley
- Alexander Brome
- Andrew Marvell
- Henry Vaughan
- John Bunyan
- Ballads and Songs by Unknown Authors
- William Strode
- Thomas Stanley
- Thomas D’Urfey
- Charles Cotton
- Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’)
- John Dryden
- Charles Webbe
- Sir George Etherege
- Thomas Traherne
- Thomas Flatman
- Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Aphra Behn
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire
- Thomas Otway
- John Oldham
- John Cutts, Lord Cutts
- Matthew Prior
- William Walsh
- Lady Grisel Baillie
- William Congreve
- Joseph Addison
- Isaac Watts
- Thomas Parnell
- Allan Ramsay
- William Oldys
- John Gay
- Alexander Pope
- George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe
- Henry Carey
- William Broome
- James Thomson
- George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton
- Samuel Johnson
- Richard Jago
- Thomas Gray
- William Collins
- Mark Akenside
- Tobias George Smollett
- Christopher Smart
- Jane Elliot
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Robert Cunninghame-Graham of Gartmore
- William Cowper
- James Beattie
- Isobel Pagan
- Anna Lætitia Barbauld
- Fanny Greville
- John Logan
- Lady Anne Lindsay
- Thomas Chatterton
- George Crabbe
- William Blake
- Robert Burns
- Henry Rowe
- William Lisle Bowles
- Joanna Baillie
- Mary Lamb
- Carolina, Lady Nairne
- James Hogg
- William Wordsworth
- Sir Walter Scott
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Robert Southey
- Walter Savage Landor
- Charles Lamb
- Thomas Campbell
- Thomas Moore
- Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow
- Ebenezer Elliott
- Allan Cunningham
- Leigh Hunt
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Caroline Southey
- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron
- Sir Aubrey De Vere
- Charles Wolfe
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Hew Ainslie
- John Keble
- John Clare
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- John Keats
- Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
- George Darley
- Hartley Coleridge
- Thomas Hood
- William Thom
- Sir Henry Taylor
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay
- William Barnes
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- Sara Coleridge
- Gerald Griffin
- James Clarence Mangan
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Richard Henry Horne
- Robert Stephen Hawker
- Thomas Wade
- Francis Mahony
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Frederick Tennyson
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin
- Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
- Charles Tennyson Turner
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson
- Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
- Henry Alford
- Sir Samuel Ferguson
- Robert Browning
- William Bell Scott
- Aubrey De Vere
- George Fox
- Emily Brontë
- Charles Kingsley
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Walt Whitman
- John Ruskin
- Ebenezer Jones
- Frederick Locker-Lampson
- Matthew Arnold
- William Brighty Rands
- William Philpot
- William (Johnson) Cory
- Coventry Patmore
- Sydney Dobell
- William Allingham
- George Mac Donald
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- George Meredith
- Alexander Smith
- Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Thomas Edward Brown
- Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton
- James Thomson
- William Morris
- Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel
- Thomas Ashe
- Theodore Watts-Dunton
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- William Dean Howells
- Bret Harte
- John Todhunter
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Henry Austin Dobson
- Henry Clarence Kendall
- Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy
- John Boyle O’Reilly
- Robert Bridges
- Andrew Lang
- William Ernest Henley
- Edmund Gosse
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- T. W. Rolleston
- John Davidson
- William Watson
- Henry Charles Beeching
- Bliss Carman
- Douglas Hyde
- Arthur Christopher Benson
- Henry Newbolt
- Gilbert Parker
- William Butler Yeats
- Rudyard Kipling
- Richard Le Gallienne
- Laurence Binyon
- George William Russell (‘A. E.’)
- T. Sturge Moore
- Francis Thompson
- Henry Cust
- Katharine Tynan Hinkson
- Frances Bannerman
- Alice Meynell
- Dora Sigerson
- Margaret L. Woods
- R. D. Blackmore
- Index of Authors