Oxford period poetry anthologies


These are Oxford poetry anthologies of English poetry, which select from a given period. See also The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse.

''New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse'' (1991)

Edited by Alastair Fowler. Poets included were:
Henry AldrichSir William Alexander, Earl of StirlingJacob AllestryMary Astell – William Austin – Sir Robert AytonWilliam BasseRichard BaxterFrancis BeaumontSir John BeaumontJoseph BeaumontThomas BeedomeAphra BehnEdward BenlowesHenry BoldAnne BradstreetRichard BrathwaitAlexander BromeSir Thomas BrowneWilliam Browne of TavistockJohn BunyanRobert BurtonSamuel ButlerThomas CampianThomas CarewJames CarkesseWilliam CartwrightPatrick CaryMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of NewcastleWilliam Cavendish, Duke of NewcastleJohn ChalkhillWilliam ChamberlayneGeorge ChapmanJohn ClevelandJohn CollopRichard CorbettCharles CottonAbraham CowleyRichard CrashawHugh CromptonJohn Cutts, Lord CuttsAlicia D'AnversThomas D'UrfeyJohn Dancer – George Daniel – Samuel DanielSir William DavenantRobert DavenportThomas DekkerSir John DenhamJohn Digby, Earl of BristolJohn DonneMichael DraytonWilliam Drummond of HawthorndenJohn DrydenRichard Duke – 'Ephelia' – Sir George EtheregeMary EvelynThomas Fairfax, Lord FairfaxMildmay Fane, Earl of WestmorlandSir Richard FanshaweHenry FarleyGeorge FarquharOwen FelthamAnne Finch, Countess of WinchilseaThomas FlatmanRichard FlecknoeGiles FletcherJohn FletcherPhineas FletcherJohn FordSimon FordThomas FordeSidney GodolphinJames Graham, Marquis of MontroseFulke Greville, Lord BrookeWilliam HabingtonHenry HallJohn HallHenry HalswellWilliam HammondSamuel HardingSir John HaringtonChristopher Harvey – Sir R. Hatton – Robert HaymanRobert HeathEdward Herbert, Lord Herbert of CherburyGeorge HerbertRobert HerrickThomas HeyrickThomas Heywood – N. Hookes – John HoskynsAnne HowardSir Robert HowardJames Howell – Sir Francis HubertLucy HutchinsonThomas JamesBen JonsonThomas KenAnne KilligrewThomas KilligrewKing James VI and IHenry KingRalph KnevetSir Francis KynastonSir Roger L'EstrangeEmilia LanierRichard LeighMartin LluelynRichard LovelaceAndrew MarvellThomas MiddletonJohn MiltonMary MollineuxHenry MoreThomas MortonPierre Antoine MotteuxNicholas MurfordThomas NabbesJohn NorrisDudley North, Lord NorthJohn OldhamPhilip PainClement PamanMartin ParkerFrancis Daniel PastoriusThomas PhilipottKatherine PhilipsAlexander PopeWalter PopeSamuel PordageEdmund PrestwichLaurence PriceFrancis QuarlesAlexander RadcliffeThomas RandolphEdward RavenscroftEldred RevettHenry ReynoldsSamuel RowlandsJoseph RutterCharles Sackville, Earl of DorsetGeorge SandysSir Charles SedleyWilliam Shakespeare – Sir Edward SherburneThomas ShipmanJames ShirleyThomas SoutherneThomas StanleyMatthew StevensonSir John StradlingWilliam StrodeSir John SucklingJoshua SylvesterLady Elizabeth TanfieldNahum TateJohn TathamEdward TaylorJohn TaylorElizabeth ThomasElizabeth TipperBenjamin TompsonAurelian TownsendThomas TraherneHenry VaughanGeorge Villiers, Duke of BuckinghamLuke WaddingEdmund WallerRowland WatkynsJohn WebsterAnne WhartonRobert WildRoger WilliamsHumphrey WillisJohn Wilmot, Earl of RochesterGerrard WinstanleyGeorge WitherWilliam WoodSir Henry Wotton – James Wright – Lady Mary Wroth

''New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse'' (1984)

Edited by Roger Lonsdale. Poets included were:
Jean Adams – Joseph AddisonJohn AikinMark AkensideMary Alcock – Robert Andrews – Christopher AnsteyJohn ArmstrongJoanna BaillieHenry BakerJohn Codrington BampfyldeJohn BancksAnna Laetitia BarbauldMary BarberJames BeattieGeorge BerkeleyIsaac BickerstaffeSamuel BishopJames BissetRobert BlairWilliam BlakeSusanna BlamireSamuel BowdenWilliam Lisle BowlesJames BramstonAndrew BriceHenry BrookeJohn BrownIsaac Hawkins BrowneMoses BrowneMichael BruceJohn Frederick BryantSir Samuel Egerton BrydgesRobert BurnsJohn ByromGeorge CanningHenry CareyJohn CarrJames CawthornThomas ChattertonEdward ChickenLady Mary ChudleighCharles ChurchillColley CibberThomas ColeJohn CollierMary CollierEmanuel CollinsWilliam CollinsGeorge Colman the youngerWilliam CongreveJoseph CottleWilliam CowperGeorge CrabbeWilliam CroweSamuel CroxallJohn CunninghamSir George DallasJohn DaltonJames DanceErasmus DarwinSneyd DaviesDaniel DefoeWilliam DiaperCharles DibdinSarah DixonJohn DobsonPhilip DoddridgeRobert Dodsley – E. Dower – Lord DreghornStephen DuckWilliam Dunkin – Thomas D'Urfey – John DyerThomas EdwardsSarah Fyge EgertonJohn EllisGeorge FarewellJoseph FawcettFrancis FawkesRobert FergussonFrederick ForrestJohn FreethGeorge GallowayJohn Gambold – Edmund Gardner – David GarrickJohn Gay – John Gerrard – Thomas GilbertRichard GloverOliver Goldsmith – James Graeme – James GraingerRichard GravesThomas GrayMatthew GreenFrances GrevilleLaurence Hynes Halloran – William Harrison – Francis HawlingJohn HawthornSamuel HenleyAaron HillThomas HolcroftLeonard HowardHildebrand JacobRichard Jago – Nicholas James – Catherine JemmatCharles JennerSoames JenynsSamuel JohnsonGeorge Keate – James Kennedy – L. Ker – William KingJohn LanghorneMary Leapor – John Learmont – Lady Anne Lindsay – Edward Littleton – Evan LloydRobert LloydAndrew MacdonaldJohn Maclaurin, Lord DreghornJames MacphersonDavid MalletBernard MandevilleWilliam MasonJoseph MatherThomas MathisonThomas MauriceRobert MerryWilliam Julius MickleMary MonckLady Mary Wortley MontaguCharles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of PeterboroughHannah MoreCharles Morris – Thomas Morris – Thomas MossThomas Mozeen – Charles Newton – John NewtonRobert Nugent, Earl NugentJohn O'KeefeRichardson PackThomas Parnell – John Parrish – William ParsonsAlexander PennecuikThomas PenroseThomas PercyAmbrose PhilipsJohn PhilipsChristopher PittAnnabella PlumtreJohn PlumtreRichard PolwheleJohn Pomfret – Alexander Pope – Kenrick PrescotMatthew PriorHenry James PyeRichard SavageJohn Scott of AmwellAnna SewardWilliam ShenstoneWilliam ShepherdRichard Brinsley SheridanChristopher SmartCharlotte Turner SmithGeorge SmithJohn SmithTobias SmollettWilliam SomervileWilliam SothebyRobert SoutheyLawrence SpoonerPhilip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of ChesterfieldGeorge Alexander StevensJonathan SwiftRobert TatersalHenry Taylor – John Taylor – William TaylorJohn ThelwallEdward ThompsonJames ThomsonThomas TickellElizabeth TolleyAugustus Montagu TopladyHorace Walpole, Earl of OrfordEdward WardJoseph WartonThomas WartonIsaac WattsJames Eyre WeeksLeonard WelstedCharles WesleyJohn WesleySamuel WesleyPhillis WheatleyGilbert White – Paul Whitehead – William Whitehead – J. Wilde – Sir Charles Hanbury WilliamsJohn Williams – Anne Finch, Countess of WinchilseaJohn WinstanleyJohn WolcotJames Woodhouse – Charles Woodward – William WotyHetty WrightJohn WrightAnn YearsleyEdward Young

''New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse'' (1993)

Edited by Jerome J. McGann. Poets included are:
Miles Peter Andrews – Joanna Baillie – Samuel Bamford – Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Thomas Beck – William Blake – William Lisle Bowles – Robert Burns – George Gordon, Lord ByronThomas Campbell – George Canning – John ClareSamuel Taylor ColeridgeHannah Cowley – William Cowper – George Crabbe – George Croly – William Crowe – Charlotte DacreGeorge Darley – Erasmus Darwin – Ebenezer ElliottCatherine Maria FanshaweJohn Hookham FrereWilliam GiffordFelicia Dorothea HemansJames HoggWilliam HoneThomas HoodLeigh HuntSir William JonesJohn KeatsCharles LambMary LambLaetitia Elizabeth LandonWalter Savage LandorJoseph LeesMatthew Gregory Lewis – Charles Lloyd – Henry LuttrellJohn Herman Merivale – Robert Merry – Mary Russell MitfordJames MontgomeryThomas MooreJohn MoultrieCaroline OliphantAmelia OpieSydney Owenson – William Parsons – Thomas Love Peacock – Richard Polwhele – Winthrop Mackworth PraedWilliam ProbertBryan Waller ProcterEdward QuillinanAnn RadcliffeMary RobinsonSamuel RogersWilliam RoscoeThomas RussellWalter Scott – Anna Seward – Percy Bysshe Shelley – Charlotte Turner Smith – Horace Smith – James Smith – Robert Southey – Thomas Tod StoddartAnn TaylorJane Taylor – William Taylor – William TennantAlfred Tennyson – John Thelwall – Mary TigheHelen Maria Williams – John Wolcot – Charles WolfeWilliam Wordsworth – Ann Yearsley

''Oxford Book of Victorian Verse'' (1922)

Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch; he included many poems that he had already selected for the Oxford Book of English Verse.
Lascelles AbercrombiePercy AddleshawDouglas AinslieThomas Bailie AldrichWilliam AlexanderWilliam AllinghamSir Edwin ArnoldMatthew ArnoldThomas AsheAlfred AustinWilliam Edmonstoune AytounPhilip James BaileyRichard Harris BarhamMaurice BaringGeorge BarlowJane BarlowWilliam BarnesBenjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of BeaconsfieldThomas Lovell BeddoesHenry Charles BeechingCharles Dent BellHilaire BellocArthur Christopher BensonLaurence BinyonJohn Stuart BlackieRichard Doddridge BlackmoreMathilde BlindWilfrid Scawen BluntGeorge Henry BokerGordon BottomleyFrancis William BourdillonRobert BridgesEmily BrontëRupert BrookeRobert Barnabas BroughOliver Madox BrownThomas Edward BrownElizabeth Barrett BrowningRobert BrowningWilliam Cullen BryantRobert BuchananArthur Gray ButlerWathen Mark Wilks CallThomas CarlyleBliss Carman – John Clare – Caroline CliveArthur Hugh CloughHartley Coleridge – Mary E. Coleridge – Sara ColeridgeMortimer CollinsFrances CornfordWilliam CoryFrances Burdett Money CouttsDinah Maria CraikWalter CraneMarquess of CreweArthur Shearly CrippsHenry Cust – George Darley – John Davidson – William H. Davies – Thomas Osborne DavisWilliam James DawsonWalter De la MareLord De TableySir Aubrey De VereAubrey De VereEmily DickinsonRichard Watson DixonBertram DobellSydney DobellAustin DobsonAlfred DomettLord Alfred DouglasEdward DowdenErnest DowsonSir Francis Hastings DoyleJohn DrinkwaterAgnes Mary Frances DuclauxHelen, Lady DufferinGeorge Louis Palmella Busson du MaurierMatilda Betham EdwardsGeorge Eliot – Ebenezer Elliott – Henry EllisonRalph Waldo EmersonFrederick William FaberSir Samuel FergusonMichale FieldEdward FitzgeraldJames Elroy FleckerAlice FurlongNorman GaleRichard GarnettWilfrid Wilson GibsonAdam Lindsay GordonEdmund GosseCharles GranvilleDavid GrayDora GreenwellGerald GriffinLouise Imogen GuineyFitz-Greene HalleckThomas HardyBret HarteRobert Stephen HawkerWilliam Ernest HenleyMaurice HewlettEmily Henrietta HickeyKatharine Tynan HinksonOliver Wendell Holmes – Thomas Hood – George HookhamGerard Manley HopkinsRichard Henry HorneLord HoughtonLaurence HousmanJulia Ward HoweWilliam Dean Howells – Leigh Hunt – Douglas HydeJean IngelowLionel JohnsonEbenezer JonesErnest Charles JonesJames JoyceJohn KebleFrances Anne KembleHenry Clarence KendallJohn KenyonCharles KingsleyHenry KingsleyRudyard Kipling – Walter Savage Landor – Andrew LangEmily LawlessEugene Lee-HamiltonEdward Cracroft LefroyRichard Le GallienneAmy LevyWilliam James LintonFrederick Locker-LampsonJohn Gibson LockhartHenry Wadsworth LongfellowJames Russell LowellHenry Dawson LowrySir Alfred Comyn LyallThomas Toke LynchSidney Royse LysaghtEarl of LyttonLord LyttonLord MacaulayDenis Florence MacCarthyGeorge MacDonaldCharles Mackay – H. C. Compton Mackenzie – Francis MahonyJames Clarence ManganPhilip Bourke MarstonTheophile MarzialsJohn MasefieldGerald MasseyAnnie MathesonGeorge MeredithHerman Charles MerivaleAlice MeynellRichard MiddletonWilliam Cosmo MonkhouseHarold MonroMary Montgomerie – T. Sturge Moore – Sir Lewis MorrisWilliam MorrisNeil MunroErnest MyersFrederic William Henry MyersJohn Mason NealeHenry NewboltJohn Henry NewmanJohn NicolRoden Berkeley Wriothesley NoelCaroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonAlfred NoyesMoira O'NeillJohn Boyle O'ReillyArthur William Edgar O'ShaughnessyFrancis Turner PalgraveSir Gilbert ParkerFanny ParnellCoventry PatmoreJohn PayneJohn Swinnerton PhillimoreStephen PhillipsEden PhillpottsWilliam PhilpotEdgar Allan PoeWalter Herries PollockEzra Pound – Winthrop Mackworth Praed – May ProbynAdelaide Anne Procter – Bryan Waller Procter – Sir Arthur Quiller-CouchErnest RadfordWilliam Brighty RandsHardwick Drummond RawnsleyErnest RhysJames Logie RobertsonSir James Rennell Rodd – Samuel Rogers – T. W. Rolleston – William Caldwell RoscoeWilliam Stanley RoscoeChristina Georgina RossettiDante Gabriel RossettiEarl of RosslynJohn RuskinGeorge William RussellLady Margaret SackvilleGeorge SantayanaWilliam Bell ScottJohn Campbell ShairpWilliam SharpDora Sigerson ShorterJoseph SkipseyDouglas Brook Wheelton SladenMenella Bute SmedleyAlexander Smith – Walter C. Smith – James StephensRobert Louis StevensonCharles SwainElinor SweetmanAlgernon Charles SwinburneJohn Addington SymondsArthur Symons – John M. Synge – Sir Henry TaylorRachel Annand TaylorFrederick TennysonLord TennysonWilliam Makepeace ThackerayFrancis ThompsonEdward William Thomson – James Thomson – Henry David ThoreauWilfrid ThorleyWalter ThornburyJohn TodhunterArchbishop TrenchHerbert TrenchCharles Tennyson TurnerSamuel WaddingtonThomas WadeEdward WalshThomas Herbert WarrenRosamund Marriott WatsonWilliam WatsonTheodore Watts-DuntonAugusta WebsterThomas WestwoodCharles WhiteheadWalt WhitmanJohn Greenleaf WhittierOscar WildeSarah WilliamsNathaniel Parker Lewis – Margaret L. Woods – Thomas WoolnerWilliam Butler Yeats

''New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse'' (1987)

Edited by Christopher Ricks. Poets included were:
William Allingham – Matthew Arnold – Thomas Ashe – Henry Bellyse Baildon – William Barnes – Aubrey Beardsley – Thomas Lovell Beddoes – Hilaire Belloc – J. Stanyan Bigg – Robert Bridges – Charlotte BrontëEmily Jane BrontëShirley Brooks – T. E. Brown – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Robert Browning – C. S. Calverley – William CantonLewis Carroll – John Clare – Arthur Hugh Clough – Mary E. Coleridge – Mortimer Collins – William Cory – John Davidson – Lord de TableyCharles Dickens – Richard Watson Dixon – Sydney Dobell – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – R. E. Egerton Warburton – George Eliot – Ebenezer Elliott – Sebastian EvansMichael FieldEdward FitzGeraldJohn Gray – Dora Greenwell – Louisa S. Guggenberger – Thomas Hardy – Robert Stephen Hawker – William Ernest Henley – Henry James – Thomas Hood – Gerard M. Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Leigh Hunt – Jean Ingelow – Lionel Johnson – Ebenezer Jones – Ernest Jones – E. Keary – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Walter Savage Landor – Andrew Lang – Edward Lear – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Amy Levy – Frederick Locker-Lampson – Thomas Babington Macaulay – George MacDonald – William Hurrell Mallock – James Clarence Mangan – Philip Bourke Marston – Gerald Massey – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – William MillerCosmo Monkhouse – William Morris – Arthur Munby – E. Nesbit – John Henry Newman – Coventry Patmore – T. L. Peacock – Victor Plarr – Winthrop Mackworth Praed – Adelaide Anne Procter – Dollie RadfordWilliam Renton – James Logie Robertson – A. Mary F. Robinson – Christina G. Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – John Ruskin – William Bell Scott – Dora Sigerson Shorter – Elizabeth SiddalGeorge Augustus Simcox – G. R. Sims – Joseph Skipsey – J. K. Stephen – Robert Louis Stevenson – William Frederick Stevenson – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Alfred Tennyson – Frederick Tennyson – William Makepeace Thackeray – Francis Thompson – James Thomson – Charles Tennyson Turner – Katharine Tynan – William Watson – Oscar Wilde – William Wordsworth – W. B. Yeats

''British Poetry and Prose 1870-1905'' (1987)

Edited by Ian Fletcher. Poets included were:
Sir Edwin Arnold – Alfred Austin – Aubrey Beardsley – Robert Bridges – Edward CarpenterMary Coleridge – John Davidson – Austin Dobson – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – Mary DuclauxEdwin John Ellis – Michael Field – Richard Le Gallienne – Sir W. S. Gilbert – Sir Edmund Gosse – John Gray – William Ernest Henley – Ellice Hopkins – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Lionel Johnson – Rudyard Kipling – Andrew Lang – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Alfred LyallCharlotte Mew – Alice Meynell – A. C. Miall – Sir Henry NewboltRoden NoelArthur O'ShaughnessyWilliam James Renton – T. W. Rolleston – George William Russell – William Sharp – J. K. Stephen – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Lord De Tabley – James Thomson – Francis Thompson – Margaret VeleySir William Watson – Augusta Webster – Oscar Wilde – W. B. Yeats
Also, prose by: Sir Max BeerbohmSamuel Erewhon ButlerHubert Crackanthorpe – Richard Garnett – Sir W. S. Gilbert – George GissingWalter PaterRichard Jefferies – Rudyard Kipling – George MooreArthur MorrisonOlive Schreiner – Robert Louis Stevenson – H. G. Wells