Oxford poetry anthologies
The Oxford University Press published a long series of poetry anthologies, dealing in particular with British poetry but not restricted to it, after the success of the Oxford Book of English Verse (1900). The Oxford poetry anthologies ('Oxford Books') are traditionally seen as 'establishment' in attitude, and routinely therefore are subjects of discussion and contention. They have been edited both by well-known poets and by distinguished academics. In the limited perspective of canon-formation, they have mostly been retrospective and well-researched, rather than breaking fresh ground.
They include:
- New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950 (1972) edited by Helen Gardner
- Oxford Anthology of English Poetry (1990) edited by John Wain
- Oxford Book of English Verse (1999) edited by Christopher Ricks
- Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1958) edited by Donagh MacDonagh and Lennox Robinson
- New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1986) edited by Thomas Kinsella
- Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917) edited by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee.
- Oxford Book of Christian Verse (1940) edited by David Cecil.
- New Oxford Book of Christian Verse (1981) edited by Donald Davie.
- Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 (1936) edited by W. B. Yeats
- Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973) edited by Philip Larkin
- Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse ( 1980) edited by D. J. Enright, reissued in 1995 as Oxford Book of Verse 1945-1980.
- Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (2001) edited by Keith Tuma.
See Oxford period poetry anthologies for selections by century, Oxford religious poetry anthologies.
Oxford Book of Sonnets (2000)
Edited by John Fuller. The poets included were:
Thomas Wyatt - Henry Howard, Earl of
Surrey - Giles Fletcher - Edmund Spenser -
Walter Ralegh -
Oxford Book of War Poetry (1984)
Edited by Jon Stallworthy. Poets and their translators included were:
Joseph Addison - Richard Aldington -
Kenneth Allott - Aneirin - Guillaume Apollinaire - Louis Aragon - Matthew Arnold - Herbert Asquith -
Oxford Book of Short Poems (1985)
Edited by James Michie and P. J. Kavanagh. Poets included were:
Henry Aldrich - William Allingham -
Drummond Allison - John Amner - Matthew Arnold - W. H. Auden - Philip
Ayres - William Baldwin - George Barker -
Jane Barker - Clement Barksdale - Richard Barnfield - Thomas Bastard - Francis Beaumont - Samuel Beckett - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Thomas Beedome - Hilaire Belloc - Sir William Berkeley - John Berryman - John Betjeman - Elizabeth Bishop - Thomas Blackburn - William Blake - Edmund Blunden - Francis William Bourdillon - Anne Bradstreet -
Robert Bridges - John Digby, Earl of
Bristol - Emily Brontë - Elizabeth
Barrett Browning - Robert Browning - John
Bunyan - Robert Burns - George Gordon, Lord Byron - Norman
Campbell - Roy Campbell - Thomas
Campion - Thomas Carew - George Chapman -
Thomas Chatterton - Geoffrey Chaucer -
G. K. Chesterton - Richard Church -
John Ciardi - Arthur Hugh Clough -
Mary Coleridge - Samuel Taylor
Coleridge - William Collins - William
Congreve - Frances Cornford - William
Johnson Cory - Francis Coutts - William Cowper - George Crabbe - Hart
Crane - Stephen Crane - Richard Crashaw -
Robert Creeley - John Crowne - E. E. Cummings - J. V. Cunningham - George Daniel - Sir William Davenant - John Davies of Hereford - W. H. Davies - C. Day Lewis - Walter De La Mare - Sir John Denham - John Warren, Lord De
Tabley - Emily Dickinson - Robert Dodsley
- John Donne - Ernest Dowson - William Drummond of Hawthornden - John Dryden -
Alan Dugan - Sir Edward Dyer - Clifford Dyment - Richard Eberhart - T. S. Eliot - Ralph Waldo Emerson - William Empson - D. J. Enright - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex - Sir George
Etherege - Gavin Ewart - Mildmay Fane, Earl of
Westmorland - Sir Richard Fanshawe - Robert
Fitzgerald - Thomas Fitzgerald - Thomas
Flatman - James Elroy Flecker - Richard
Flecknoe - John Fletcher - Phineas
Fletcher - Ford Madox Ford - John
Ford - Robert Francis - John
Freeman - Robert Frost - Roy Fuller -
John Gay - Oliver Goldsmith - Robert Graves - Thomas Gray -
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