THE OXFORD BOOK OF
ENGLISH VERSE

List of Authors

Anonymous. XIII-XIV Century Robert Mannyng of Brunne.°1288, 1338 William Langland.°?1332, ?1400 John Barbour.°?1316, 1395 Geoffrey Chaucer.°?1340, 1400 Thomas Hoccleve.°?1368/9, ?1450 John Lydgate.°?1370, ?1450 King James I of Scotland.°1394, 1437 Robert Henryson.°1425, 1500 William Dunbar.°1465, ?1520 Anonymous. XV-XVI Century John Skelton.°?1460, 1529 Stephen Hawes. 1523 Sir Thomas Wyatt.°1503, 1542 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.°1516, 1547 Nicholas Grimald.°1519, 1562 Alexander Scott.°?1525, ?1584 Robert Wever. c. 1550 Richard Edwardes.°1523, 1566 George Gascoigne.°?1525, 1577 Alexander Montgomerie.°?1540, ?1610 William Stevenson.°?1530, 1575 Anonymous. XVI-XVII Century Nicholas Breton.°1542, 1626 Sir Walter Raleigh.°1552, 1618 Edmund Spenser.°1552, 1599 John Lyly.°1553, 1606 Anthony Munday.°1553, 1633 Sir Philip Sidney.°1554, 1586 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.°1554, 1628 Thomas Lodge.°?1556, 1625 George Peele.°?1558, 1597 Robert Greene.°1560, 1592 George Chapman.°1560, 1634 Robert Southwell.°?1561, 1595 Henry Constable.°?1562, ?1613 Samuel Daniel.°1562, 1619 Mark Alexander Boyd.°1563, 1601 Joshua Sylvester.°1561, 1618 Michael Drayton.°1563, 1631 Christopher Marlowe.°1564, 1593 William Shakespeare.°1564, 1616 Richard Rowlands.°1565, ?1630 Thomas Nashe.°1567, 1601 Thomas Campian.°1567, 1619 John Reynolds. 16th Cent. Sir Henry Wotton.°1568, 1639 Sir John Davies.°1569, 1626 Sir Robert Ayton.°1570, 1638 Ben Jonson.°1573, 1637 John Donne.°1573, 1631 Richard Barnefield.°1574, 1627 Thomas Dekker.°1575, 1641 Thomas Heywood.°?1575, 1650 John Fletcher.°1579, 1625 John Webster.°?1580, ?1630 William Alexander, Earl of Stirling. °?1580, 1640 Phineas Fletcher.°1580, 1650 Lord Herbert of Cherbury.°1583, 1648 Sir John Beaumont.°1583, 1627 William Drummond, of Hawthornden, °1585, 1649 Giles Fletcher.°?1588, 1623 Francis Beaumont.°1586, 1616 John Ford.°1586, 1639 George Wither.°1588, 1667 William Browne, of Tavistock.°1588, 1643 Robert Herrick.°1591, 1674 Francis Quarles.°1592, 1644 Henry King, Bishop of Chichester.°1592, 1669 George Herbert.°1593, 1632 James Shirley.°1596, 1666 Thomas Carew.°?1595, ?1639 Jasper Mayne.°1604, 1672 William Habington.°1605, 1654 Thomas Randolph.°1605, 1635 Sir William Davenant.°1606, 1668 Edmund Waller.°1606, 1687 John Milton.°1608, 1674 Sir John Suckling.°1609, 1642 Sir Richard Fanshawe.°1608, 1666 William Cartwright.°1611, 1643 James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. °1612, 1650 Thomas Jordan.°?1612, 1685 Richard Crashaw.°?1613, 1649 Richard Lovelace.°1618, 1658 Abraham Cowley.°1618, 1667 Alexander Brome.°1620, 1666 Andrew Marvell.°1621, 1678 Henry Vaughan.°1621, 1695 John Bunyan.°1628, 1688 Anonymous Ballads and Songs William Strode.°1602, 1645 Thomas Stanley.°1625, 1678 Thomas D’Urfey.°1653, 1723 Charles Cotton.°1630, 1687 Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’).°1631, 1664 Thomas Traherne.°?1637, 1674 John Dryden.°1631, 1700 Charles Webbe. c. 1678 Sir George Etherege.°1635, 1691 Thomas Flatman.°1637, 1688 Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset.°1638, 1706 Sir Charles Sedley.°1639, 1701 Aphra Behn.°1640, 1689 John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.°1647, 1680 John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire. °1648, 1721 Thomas Otway.°1652, 1685 John Oldham.°1653, 1683 Matthew Prior.°1664, 1721 William Walsh.°1663, 1708 Lady Grisel Baillie.°1665, 1746 William Congreve.°1670, 1729 Joseph Addison.°1672, 1719 Isaac Watts.°1674, 1748 Thomas Parnell.°1679, 1718 Allan Ramsay.°1686, 1758 William Oldys.°1687, 1761 John Gay.°1685, 1732 Alexander Pope.°1688, 1744 Anonymous Henry Carey.°?1693, 1743 William Broome.°1689, 1745 James Thomson.°1700, 1748 Charles Wesley.°1707, 1788 Samuel Johnson.°1709, 1784 Richard Jago.°1715, 1781 Anonymous William Shenstone.°1714, 1763 Thomas Gray.°1716, 1771 William Collins.°1721, 1759 Mark Akenside.°1721, 1770 Thomas Osbert Mordaunt.°1730, 1809 John Scott of Amwell.°1730, 1783 Tobias George Smollett.°1721, 1771 Christopher Smart.°1722, 1770 Jane Elliot.°1727, 1805 Oliver Goldsmith.°1728, 1774. Robert Cunninghame-Graham of Gartmore. °1735, 1797

William Cowper.°1731, 1800 James Beattie.°1735, 1803 Isobel Pagan.°1740, 1821 Anna Lætitia Barbauld.°1743, 1825 Fanny Greville. 18th century Michael Bruce.°1740, 1767 Lady Anne Lindsay.°1750, 1825 Sir William Jones.°1746, 1794 Thomas Chatterton.°1752, 1770 George Crabbe.°1754, 1832 William Blake.°1757, 1827 Robert Burns.°1759, 1796 Henry Rowe.°1754, 1819 William Lisle Bowles.°1762, 1850 Joanna Baillie.°1762, 1851 Mary Lamb.°1765, 1847 Carolina, Lady Nairne.°1766, 1845 James Hogg.°1770, 1835 William Wordsworth.°1770, 1850 Sir Walter Scott.°1771, 1832 Samuel Taylor Coleridge.°1772, 1834 Robert Southey.°1774, 1843 Walter Savage Landor.°1775, 1864 Joseph Blanco White.°1775, 1841 Samuel Rogers.°1763, 1855 Charles Lamb.°1775, 1834 Thomas Campbell.°1774, 1844 Thomas Moore.°1779, 1852 Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow.°1781, 1829 Ebenezer Elliott.°1781, 1849 Allan Cunningham.°1784, 1842 Leigh Hunt.°1784, 1859 John Kenyon.°1784, 1856 Thomas Love Peacock.°1785, 1866 Bryan Waller Procter.°1787, 1874 George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron.°1788, 1824 Sir Aubrey de Vere.°1788, 1846 Charles Wolfe.°1791, 1823 Percy Bysshe Shelley.°1792, 1822 John Keble.°1792, 1866 John Clare.°1793, 1864 Felicia Dorothea Hemans.°1793, 1835 John Gibson Lockhart.°1794, 1854 John Keats.°1795, 1821 William Cullen Bryant.°1794, 1878 Jeremiah Joseph Callanan.°1795, 1829 William Sidney Walker.°1795, 1846 George Darley.°1795, 1846 Hartley Coleridge.°1796, 1849 Thomas Hood.°1798, 1845 Anonymous William Thom.°1798, 1848 Sir Henry Taylor.°1800, 1886 Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay,°1800, 1859 William Barnes.°1801, 1886 Winthrop Mackworth Praed.°1802, 1839 Gerald Griffin.°1803, 1840 James Clarence Mangan.°1803, 1849 Thomas Lovell Beddoes.°1803, 1849 Ralph Waldo Emerson.°1803, 1882 Richard Henry Horne.°1803, 1884 Charles Whitehead.°1804, 1862 Robert Stephen Hawker.°1804, 1875 Francis Mahony.°1805, 1866 Elizabeth Barrett Browning.°1806, 1861 Frederick Tennyson.°1807, 1898 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.°1807, 1882 John Greenleaf Whittier.°1807, 1892 Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton.°1808, 1876 Charles Tennyson Turner.°1808, 1879 Edgar Allan Poe.°1809, 1849 Edward Fitzgerald.°1809, 1883 Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton. °1809, 1885 Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson.°1809, 1892 Sir Samuel Ferguson.°1810, 1886 Sir Francis Hastings Doyle.°1810, 1888 William Makepeace Thackeray.°1811, 1863 Robert Browning.°1812, 1889 William Bell Scott.°1812, 1890 George Fox.°1815 Emily Brontëe.°1818, 1848 Charles Kingsley.°1819, 1875 Arthur Hugh Clough.°1819, 1861 Walt Whitman.°1819, 1892 John Ruskin.°1819, 1900 Ebenezer Jones.°1820, 1860 Anonymous Matthew Arnold.°1822, 1888 William Brighty Rands.°1823, 1880 William Philpot.°1823, 1889 William (Johnson) Cory.°1823, 1892 Coventry Patmore.°1823, 1896 Sydney Dobell.°1824, 1874 William Allingham.°1824, 1889 Dante Gabriel Rossetti.°1828, 1882 Emily Dickinson.°1830, 1886 Christina Georgina Rossetti.°1830, 1894 Jean Ingelow.°1820, 1897 Thomas Edward Brown.°1830, 1897 Richard Watson Dixon.°1833, 1900 George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier °1834, 1896 William Morris.°1834, 1896 John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley. °1835, 1895 Henry Clarence Kendall.°1841, 1882. Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy. °1844, 1881 Gerard Manley Hopkins.°1844, 1889. John Boyle O’Reilly.°1844, 1890 Robert Louis Stevenson.°1850, 1894 Margaret L. Woods.°1856 Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux.°1857 Ernest Rhys.°1859 Douglas Hyde.°1861 May Probyn Eden Phillpotts.°1862 Norman Gale.°1862 Frances Bannerman Richard Le Gallienne.°1866 Ernest Dowson.°1867, 1900 Lord Alfred Douglas.°1870 Thomas Sturge Moore.°1870 Hilaire Belloc.°1870 William Henry Davies.°1871 Ralph Hodgson.°1872 Walter De La Mare.°1873 Gordon Bottomley.°1874 John Alexander Chapman.°1875 John Masefield.°1878 Oliver St. John Gogarty.°1878 Wilfrid Thorley.°1878 Alfred Noyes.°1880 Herbert Edward Palmer.°1880 Padraic Colum.°1881 James Joyce.°1882 James Stephens.°1882 Siegfried Sassoon.°1886 Edmund Blunden°1896 Richard Doddridge Blackmore.°1825, 1900

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