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THE OXFORD
BOOK OF
ENGLISH
VERSE
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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