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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