Edited by
John Press. The poets included were:
Dannie Abse –
Fleur Adcock – William Alexander, Earl of Stirling –
Kingsley Amis –
Simon Armitage – Matthew Arnold –
W. H. Auden –
Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam – Anna Laetitia Barbauld – George Barker –
Richard Barnfield – Francis Beaumont –
Patricia Beer –
John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon –
Thomas Blackburn – Edmund Blunden –
Eavan Boland –
Ronald Bottrall – Robert Bridges –
George Mackay Brown – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Robert Browning –
Alan Brownjohn – Robert Burns – George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron –
Norman Cameron – Roy Campbell – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – Thomas Carew – Henry Carey –
Lewis Carroll –
Charles Causley – Colley Cibber – John Clare –
Austin Clarke –
Jack Clemo – Arthur Hugh Clough – Hartley Coleridge – Samuel Taylor Coleridge – John Collins – William Collins –
Tony Connor –
Henry Constable –
David Constantine – Abraham Cowley – William Cowper – Richard Crashaw –
Robert Crawford – Allan Cunningham – Samuel Daniel – George Darley –
Donald Davie – W. H. Davies –
Dick Davis – Thomas Dekker – Walter de la Mare –
Lord De Tabley – Richard Watson Dixon –
Keith Douglas – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – William Drummond – John Dryden –
Carol Ann Duffy –
Helen Dunmore –
Douglas Dunn –
Lawrence Durrell –
Thomas Stearns Eliot –
Alistair Elliot –
Jean Elliot –
William Empson –
D. J. Enright –
Gavin Ewart –
James Fenton –
Roy Fisher – Edward FitzGerald – John Fletcher –
Veronica Forrest-Thomson –
John Fuller –
Roy Fuller –
Elizabeth Garrett – David Gascoyne – John Gay – Oliver Goldsmith – Robert Graham –
Robert Graves – Thomas Gray –
Thom Gunn –
Michael Hamburger –
Ian Hamilton – Thomas Hardy –
Tony Harrison –
Seamus Heaney –
John Heath-Stubbs – George Herbert – Robert Herrick – Thomas Heywood –
Geoffrey Hill – Ralph Hodgson –
David Holbrook –
Molly Holden – Thomas Hood – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman –
Ted Hughes –
T. E. Hulme –
Elizabeth Jennings – Lionel Johnson – Ben Jonson –
Patrick Kavanagh – John Keats – Sidney Keyes –
Thomas Kinsella – Rudyard Kipling –
James Kirkup –
Charles Lamb – Walter Savage Landor –
Philip Larkin –
D. H. Lawrence –
Edward Lear – Laurie Lee – Alun Lewis – Cecil Day-Lewis – Lady Anne Lindsay – Thomas Lodge –
John Logan –
Michael Longley – Richard Lovelace –
Edward Lowbury – John Lyly –
George MacBeth –
Norman MacCaig –
Hugh MacDiarmid –
Louis MacNeice –
Derek Mahon – Christopher Marlowe – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – George Meredith –
William Julius Mickle – John Milton – Thomas Moore –
William Morris –
Andrew Motion –
Edwin Muir –
Paul Muldoon –
Carolina, Lady Nairne –
Thomas Nash –
Robert Nichols –
Norman Nicholson –
Bernard O'Donoghue –
Wilfred Owen – Coventry Patmore –
Tom Paulin – Ambrose Philips – Alexander Pope –
Peter Porter –
Jonathan Price –
F. T. Prince – Matthew Prior –
Craig Raine –
Peter Redgrove – Henry Reed –
Anne Ridler – Michael Riviere –
W. R. Rodgers – Samuel Rogers –
Isaac Rosenberg –
Alan Ross – Christina Georgina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti –
Carol Rumens –
Lawrence Sail –
Siegfried Sassoon –
Vernon Scannell – Sir Walter Scott –
Peter Scupham –
Sir Charles Sedley –
George Sewell – William Shakespeare – Percy Bysshe Shelley –
James Shirley – Sir Philip Sidney –
Jon Silkin –
C. H. Sisson –
Edith Sitwell –
Iain Crichton Smith –
Stevie Smith – Robert Southey –
Bernard Spencer – Stephen Spender – Edmund Spenser –
Jon Stallworthy –
Anne Stevenson – Sir John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – Joshua Sylvester – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas –
R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson –
James Thomson (
The Seasons) –
James Thomson (B.V.) –
Anthony Thwaite –
Terence Tiller –
Charles Tomlinson –
The Shepherd Tony – Henry Vaughan – Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford –
John Wain –
Ted Walker – Edmund Waller –
Vernon Watkins – John Webster –
Robert Wells – Lawrence Whistler –
Hugo Williams – George Wither –
Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – Sir Henry Wotton –
David Wright –
Kit Wright –
Sir Thomas Wyat – William Butler Yeats –
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