Quiller-Couch,
Arthur, ed.
1919. The Oxford Book of English
Verse.
Six centuries of
the best poetry in the English language constitute the 883 poems of this
unsurpassed anthology.
1922. The Oxford Book of Victorian
Verse.
779 poems from
273 authors span the 19th and early 20th centuries.
1910. The Oxford Book of Ballads.
176 works from the epic
ballads of the Middle Ages to familiar lyrics.
Braithwaite,
William Stanley, ed.
1907. The Book of Elizabethan
Verse.
1910. The Book of Restoration
Verse.
1909. The Book of Georgian Verse.
These three monumental
volumes with extensive notes contain 1,796 selections.
1920. Anthology of Magazine Verse for
1920.
1922. Anthology of Massachusetts
Poets.
Monroe, Harriet,
ed.
1912–22. Poetry: A Magazine of
Verse.
The massive
database of all 2,822 poems from the first decade of the seminal journal of
verse.
1917. The New Poetry: An
Anthology.
A collection
of 424 poems by 101 authors.
Longfellow, Henry
Wadsworth, ed. 1876–79. Poems of
Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Longfellow’s anthology of
anthologies comprises 4,242 selections traced to every corner of the
planet.
Carman, Bliss, et al., eds. 1904. The
World’s Best Poetry.
Nine volumes with 2,287
selections classified and subcategorized.
Ward, Thomas Humphry, ed. 1880–1918. The English Poets.
These five volumes contain
1,446 selections by over 200 authors and feature lengthy critical
introductions.
Ford, James and Mary, eds. 1902. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of
the World’s History.
718 annotated selections
illustrate the great happenings and major authors of every age.
Nicholson & Lee, eds. 1917. The
Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse.
From Donne and Traherne to
Whitman and Yeats, this unique anthology spans 5 centuries with 390 selections
by 162 authors.
Stedman, Edmund
Clarence, ed.
1900. An American Anthology.
1740 selections by 573
authors represent a century of poetic culture.
1891. Index to Verse.
Over 1200 works from Library of American Literature.
1895. A Victorian Anthology.
1274 works by 343 authors
represent the great literary age.
Farr, Edward, ed.
1845. Select Poetry, Chiefly
Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
1847. Select Poetry, Chiefly Sacred,
of the Reign of King James the First.
Miles, Alfred H., ed.
1907. The Sacred Poets of the
Nineteenth Century.
Nearly 500 selections by over 100
authors–each with a critical biography–illustrate a flowering of devotional
Christian verse.
1907. Women Poets of the Nineteenth
Century.
Critical
biographies of 47 women are illustrated by 403 expertly chosen verse
selections.
Squire, J. C., ed. 1921. A Book of
Women’s Verse.
179 expertly selected poems
from the best women poets in English.
Teasdale, Sara, comp. 1917. The
Answering Voice.
A centenary of women’s
poems selected by a great woman poet.
Hunt, Leigh and Lee, S.A., eds. 1867. The Book of the Sonnet.
The 530 selections by 136
authors.
Waddington, Samuel, ed. 1888. The
Sonnets of Europe.
225 selections from 95
authors from the major European poets.
Higginson, T.W., and Bigelow, E.H., eds. 1891. American Sonnets.
A wide-ranging expertly
selected 250 selections by 152 authors.
Seccombe and Arber, eds. 1904. Elizabethan Sonnets.
Seventeen sonnet-cycles
comprising 1,121 selections.
Macphail, Andrew, ed. 1916. The Book
of Sorrow.
These 528 poetic selections
represent the dark side.
Smith, T.R., ed. 1921–22. Poetica
Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse.
Three volumes with 765
modernized selections sing the body and soul combined.
Johnson, James
Weldon, ed. 1922. The Book of
American Negro Poetry.
This volume inspired the
Harlem Renaissance generation to establish firmly an African-American literary
tradition.
Lounsbury, Thomas,
ed. 1919. Yale Book of American
Verse.
Selections from the
Pantheon of American poets, including Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow and
Lowell.
Kettell, Samuel, ed. 1829. Specimens
of American Poetry.
These 454 selections from
188 authors form the first major verse anthology in the United States.
McCarty, William, ed. 1842. The
American National Song-Book.
786 selections record in
song early American martial pride.
Emerson, Ralph
Waldo, ed. 1880. Parnassus.
Some 700 complete poems,
excerpts and verse quotations.
Cooke, George Willis, ed. 1903. The
Poets of Transcendentalism.
186 poems by the 42 major
and minor authors.
Kreymborg, Alfred, ed. 1920. Others
for 1919: An Anthology of the New Verse.
Clarke, George Herbert, ed. 1917. A
Treasury of War Poetry.
The 106 authors of these
151 poems represent the many perspectives of those engulfed in the first “Great
War.”
Rittenhouse, Jessie B., ed.
1917. The Little Book of Modern
Verse.
1920. The Second Book of Modern
Verse. Untermeyer,
Louis, ed.
1919. Modern American Poetry.
Over 130 poems from such
American masters as Ezra Pound, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Vincent Benét and Emily
Dickinson.
1920. Modern British Poetry.
Nearly 180 poems exemplify
the works of Britain’s most revered poets, including Bridges, Kipling, “A. E.,”
Synge and De la Mare.
Friedlander, Joseph, comp. 1917. Standard Book of Jewish Verse.
731 selections by hundred
of authors span three millenia.
Lucas, St. John, ed. 1920. Oxford
Book of French Verse.
317 works in the French
language spanning six centuries.
Garrod, Heathcote W., ed. 1912. Oxford Book of Latin Verse.
384 selections from 76
authors in their native tongue.
Murdoch, Walter, ed. 1918. Oxford
Book of Australasian Verse.
National character and
natural beauty in 205 poems by 80 authors.
Campbell, William W., ed. 1913. Oxford Book of Canadian Verse.
251 poems by 100 authors
trace Canadian literary development.
Colum, Padraic,
ed. 1922. Anthology of Irish Verse.
181 poems arranged along
national themes.
Münsterberg, Margarete, ed., 1916. A
Harvest of German Verse.
77 authors and 153 poems,
with Goethe, Heine, and Rilke.
Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. 1921. Modern Russian Poetry.
117 selections by 36
authors span a century of Russian verse.
Grierson, Herbert
J.C., ed. 1921. Metaphysical Lyrics
& Poems of the Seventeenth Century.
The verse “inspired by a
philosophical conception of the universe.”
Beeching, H. C., ed. 1903. Lyra
Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse.
272 selections from the
greatest Christian poets.
Horder, W. Garrett, ed. 1895. The
Poets’ Bible: New Testament.
328 selections map Gospel
verses to their inspiration in verse.
Palgrave,
Francis, ed. 1921. The Golden
Treasury.
Nearly 300 lyrical pieces
and songs.
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, ed. 1917. The Book of New York Verse.
These 234 lovingly selected
poems trace the history of the City.
Macdonald, Augustin S., ed. 1914. A
Collection of Verse by California Poets.
These 105 selections
represent the early Golden State poets.
Strachey, Lionel, et al., eds. 1906. Index to Humorous Poems.
361 selections from the
15-volume anthology.
Fuess and Stearns, comps. 1922. The
Little Book of Society Verse.
147 selections of modern
light verse.
English Poetry I: From Chaucer to
Gray. 1909–14.
The 293 works in this first
part of an extensive anthology include a glossary of over 1,000
footnotes.
English Poetry II: From Collins to
Fitzgerald. 1909–14.
The 330 works by more than
60 authors survey the greatest works of the English Romantic poets.
English Poetry III: From Tennyson to
Whitman. 1909–14.
The 200 poems in this last
of a three-volume anthology span 40 nineteenth-century Britains and
Americans.
Hymns of the Christian Church.
1909–14.
A collection of 39 works
from the early Catholic Church to Protestantism.
Sinclair,
Upton, ed. 1915. The Cry for Justice:
An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest.
With many verse selections,
these 665 annotated entries show American Progressivism at its heyday.
Bridges, Robert,
ed. 1916. The Spirit of Man: An
Anthology.
Created in the darkness of
the Great War, Bridges collects a book of lights from the literature of his
nation and its allies.
Indexes to Six
Anthologies: Chronologic, Author, Title, First Line.
Hyperlinked indexes and
anthology search.
Volumes
Arnold, Matthew.
1909. The Poems of Matthew Arnold,
1840–1867.
The bridge from the
Victorian to the Modern era.
Blake, William.
1908. The Poetical Works.
The Oxford Blake is the
highpoint of editions of the great mystical poet of the Romantic era
Brooke, Rupert.
1916. Collected Poems.
These 82 ecstatic poems
form the heritage and chronicle of a handsome British youth who died in the
Great War.
Burns, Robert.
1909–14. Poems and Songs.
557 works by the most
lauded poet of Scotland, with a glossary of over 1,900 words and phrases.
Byron, Lord.
1881. Poetry of Byron.
Chapman, George,
trans. 1857. The Odysseys of Homer,
vol. 1.
Chapman’s elegant 1614–16
translation of Homer’s epic.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
1894. Complete Poetical Works.
Skeat’s expert editorship
reinvigorates the birth of the English language in his multivolume
Chaucer.
Dante Alighieri.
1909–14. The Divine Comedy.
The height of the
fall-and-redemption genre that would influence every generation of writer
since.
Dickinson,
Emily. 1924. Complete Poems.
Comprising 597 poems of the
Belle of Amherst.
Donne, John. 1896.
The Poems of John Donne.
The master of metaphysical
poetry featuring modernized spellings.
Dryden, John.
1913. The Poems of John Dryden.
Includes songs from his
plays and translations.
Eliot, T.S.
The great early works of
the American poet who defined the early 20th century in verse.
1920.
Prufrock and Other Observations.
1920. Poems.
1922. The Waste Land.
Emerson, Ralph
Waldo. 1904. The Poems of
Emerson.
From the twelve-volume Concord edition of his Complete Works
features voluminous footnotes painstakingly compiled by his son.
Frost, Robert
Frost’s poems are concerned
with human tragedies and fears, his reaction to the complexities of life and
ultimate acceptance.
1915. A
Boy’s Will.
1915. North of
Boston.
1920. Mountain
Interval.
1920. Miscellaneous
Poems.
Graves, Robert.
1918. Fairies and Fusiliers.
Much of Graves’s poetry
focuses on his experiences in World War I—as evidenced in these forty-six
collected poems.
Hardy, Thomas.
1898. Wessex Poems & Other
Verses.
Like many of Hardy’s
novels, these fifty-one poems are all set against the bleak and forbidding
Dorset landscape.
Hopkins, G.M.
1918. Poems.
Considered an early Modern
poet ahead of his Victorian time, G.M. Hopkins’s verse is notable for his use of
sprung rhythm.
Housman, A.E.
1896. A Shropshire Lad.
This collection of verse is
Housman’s signature work reflecting on passing of youth in the English
countryside.
Howard, Henry, Earl of
Surrey. 1880. The Poetical Works.
Sixty selections from the
Tudor poet who was the first practitioner of blank verse in English.
Hutchinson,
Lucy. 1679. Order and Disorder.
The greatest epic rarely
read.
Keats, John.
1884. Poetical Works.
A master of blank and
lyrical verse, this collection includes all of Keats’s major and minor
works.
Kipling, Rudyard.
1922. Verse: 1885–1918.
These 416 selections
represent the best of the Nobel prize–winning poet—from Gunga Din to If.
Lawrence, D.H.
These two collections of
verse were written as D.H. Lawrence’s career began its climb towards fame and
controversy.
1916. Amores.
1916. New Poems.
Longfellow, Henry
Wadsworth. 1893. Complete Poetical
Works.
The 600 selections contain
all the verse and dramas of the quintessential nineteenth-century American
poet.
Masters, Edgar
Lee. 1916. Spoon River Anthology.
In these post-mortem
autobiographical “epitaphs,” 244 former citizens reveal the truth about their
lives.
Millay, Edna St.
Vincent. 1917. Renascence and Other
Poems.
Her first volume praised
for its freshness and vitality.
Milton, John.
1909–14. Complete Poems Written in
English.
Paradise Lost and
Regained—among the greatest epic poems of any age—combined with the full
array of Milton’s English works.
Pope, Alexander.
1903. Complete Poetical Works.
The verse and famous
translations from Homer and others.
Raleigh, Sir
Walter. 1892. Poems.
Thirty selections from the
Elizabethan adventurer.
Robinson, Edwin
Arlington. 1921. Collected Poems.
Pulitzer Prize–winning
collection of 166 poems, which includes the best examples of his work in both
long and short verse forms.
Russell, George
William. 1913. Collected Poems by
A.E.
Selected and edited by the
author, these 173 works epitomize the best of the Irish Renaissance poet.
Sandburg, Carl
Early collections
celebrating his romance with America.
1916. Chicago Poems.
1918. Cornhuskers.
1920. Smoke and Steel.
Sassoon, Siegfried
Expressing the brutality
and waste of war in forceful, realistic verse.
1918. The Old Huntsman and Other Poems.
1918. Counter-Attack and Other
Poems.
1920. Picture-Show.
Shakespeare,
William. 1914. The Oxford
Shakespeare.
The 37 plays, 154 sonnets
and miscellaneous verse that constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of
Western civilization.
Shelley, Percy
Bysshe. 1901. Complete Poetical
Works.
Partial collection.
Spenser, Edmund.
1908. Complete Poetical Works.
This Student’s Cambridge
Edition of the great Elizabethan poet features critical introductions of the
major works.
Stein, Gertrude.
1914. Tender Buttons.
A poetic series of “cubist”
verbal portraits.
Stevenson, Robert
Louis. 1913. A Child’s Garden of
Verses and Underwoods, with Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander
Harvey.
Two best-loved verse
collections comprising 121 poems.
Vergil. 1909–14. Æneid.
The greatest of Latin
epics, concerning the mythic founder of Rome.
Wheatley,
Phillis. 1773. Poems on Various
Subjects.
The first book of verse by
an African-American.
Whitman, Walt.
1900. Leaves of Grass.
In 1855 Whitman published
Leaves of Grass in which he proclaims himself the symbolic representative
of common people.
Whittier, John
Greenleaf. 1892. The Poetical
Works.
Four volumes, containing
500 selections.
Wilde, Oscar.
1881. Poems.
First published
verse.
Wordsworth,
William. 1888. Complete Poetical
Works.
This 1888 complete
collection contains nearly 900 poems.
Wyatt, Sir Thomas.
1880. The Poetical Works.
One hundred ninety
selections from the Henrician courtier and herald of the sonnet in
English.
Yeats, William
Butler
Collections by one of the
greatest lyric poets of the 20th century.
1899. The Wind Among the Reeds.
1916. Responsibilities and Other Poems.
1919. The Wild Swans at
Coole.
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