Table of Contents
Introduction ix
1 Homer 1
2 Sappho 5
3 Virgil 7
4 Horace 11
5 Ovid 13
6 Anonymous Anglo-Saxon 15
7 Dante Alighieri 17
8 Geoffrey Chaucer 19
9 William Langland 21
10 Hafiz 24
11 John Skelton 26
12 Sir Thomas Wyatt 29
13 Edmund Spenser 31
14 Christopher Marlowe 35
15 William Shakespeare 37
16 John Donne 40
17 Ben Jonson 45
18 Robert Herrick 50
19 Andrew Marvell 52
20 George Herbert 58
21 Henry Vaughan 60
22 Thomas Traherne 63
23 John Milton 65
24 John Dryden 70
25 Alexander Pope 74
26 Samuel Johnson 79
27 Oliver Goldsmith 83
28 John Gay 86
29 Phillis Wheatley 88
30 Stephen Duck 89
31 John Clare 91
32 William Cowper 95
33 Thomas Gray 99
34 William Wordsworth 103
35 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 108
36 John Keats 111
37 Percy Bysshe Shelley 113
38 William Blake 115
39 George Gordon, Lord Byron 116
40 Robert Burns 118
41 Heinrich Heine 121
42 Rainer Maria Rilke 123
43 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 124
44 Robert Browning 127
45 Arthur Hugh Clough 130
46 Matthew Arnold 132
47 Emily Brontë 134
48 Christina Rossetti 136
49 Edgar Allan Poe 139
50 Walt Whitman 144
51 Emily Dickinson 147
52 Charles Baudelaire 151
53 Dylan Thomas 153
54 Edward Lear 155
55 Lewis Carroll 157
56 Charlotte Mew 159
57 Oscar Wilde 161
58 Algernon Charles Swinburne 164
59 Thomas Hardy 167
60 Rudyard Kipling 172
61 A.E. Housman 174
62 Gerard Manley Hopkins 177
63 Edward Thomas 179
64 Robert Frost 182
65 W.H. Davies 184
66 G.K. Chesterton 187
67 Robert Graves 192
68 D.H. Lawrence 194
69 Wilfred Owen 198
70 Isaac Rosenberg 200
71 May Wedderburn Cannan 202
72 John McCrae 205
73 W.B. Yeats 206
74 T.S. Eliot 209
75 Ezra Pound 211
76 T.E. Hulme 213
77 William Carlos Williams 215
78 Helene Johnson 217
79 Langston Hughes 220
80 Elizabeth Bishop 222
81 W.H. Auden 225
82 Louis MacNeice 227
83 Keith Douglas 230
84 Alun Lewis 232
85 Henry Reed 234
86 Louis Simpson 236
87 Richard Wilbur 239
88 Randall Jarrell 240
89 John Pudney 242
90 Lois Clark 243
91 Theodore Roethke 245
92 Philip Larkin 247
93 D.J. Enright 249
94 Thorn Gunn 250
95 Ted Hughes 252
96 Sylvia Plath 254
97 R.S. Thomas 257
98 Seamus Heaney 259
99 Maya Angelou 261
100 Les Murray 263
Acknowledgements 265
