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- Anthologies
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Quiller-Couch, Arthur, ed. 1910. The Oxford Book of Ballads.
- This anthology of 176 works ranges from the epic ballads of the Middle Ages to lyrics familiar to this day.
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- Lucas, St. John, ed. 1920. The Oxford Book of French Verse.
- A selection of 317 works in the French language spanning six centuries.
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- Garrod, Heathcote William, ed. 1912. The Oxford Book of Latin Verse.
- These 384 selections from 76 authors survey the pantheon of Roman poets in their native tongue.
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- Murdoch, Walter, ed. 1918. The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse.
- The national characters and natural beauty of Australia and New Zealand invigorate 205 poems by 80 authors.
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- Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed.
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- 1900. An American Anthology.
These 1740 selections by 573 authors represent a century of poetic culture.
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- 1895. A Victorian Anthology.
These 1274 works by 343 authors represent the full course of one of the great literary ages of English verse.
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- 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 in the United States.
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- Lounsbury, Thomas, ed. 1919. Yale Book of American Verse.
- Selections from the Pantheon of American poets, including Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow and Lowell.
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- Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology.
- A collection of 424 poems by 101 authors from one of the most influential publishers of the early twentieth century.
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- 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.”
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- Braithwaite, William Stanley, ed.
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- 1922. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.
This snapshot of a year in the public life of the American poetic voice constitutes 120 works by 75 authors.
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- 1920. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets.
This unique collection of 90 poems by 57 poets features a particularly large number of women writers.
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- Rittenhouse, Jessie B., ed.
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- 1917. The Little Book of Modern Verse.
A uniquely readable, full poetic journey of 70 early twentieth-century authors.
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- 1920. The Second Book of Modern Verse.
This “small, intimate volume” constitutes 195 works by 92 authors.
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- Untermeyer, Louis, ed.
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- 1919. Modern American Poetry.
Over 130 poems from such American masters as Ezra Pound, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Vincent Benét and Emily Dickinson.
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- 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.
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- Colum, Padraic, ed. 1922. Anthology of Irish Verse.
- Arranged along national themes, a unique anthology of 181 poems and traditional songs.
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- Grierson, Herbert J.C., ed. 1921. Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C.
- The verse that “has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe.”
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- Palgrave, Francis, ed. 1921. The Golden Treasury.
- Nearly 300 lyrical pieces and songs by such famous poets as Milton, Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Cowper, Burns and Spenser.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Hymns of the Christian Church. 1909–14.
- A collection of 39 works from the early Catholic Church to Protestantism.
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- Indexes to Poems: Chronologic, Author, Title, First Line.
- Hyperlinked indexes and anthology search.
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- Volumes
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Chapman, George, trans. 1857. The Odysseys of Homer, vol. 1.
- Chapman’s elegant 1614–16 translation of Homer’s epic.
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- Dante Alighieri. 1909–14. The Divine Comedy.
- The height of the fall-and-redemption genre that would influence every generation of writer since.
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- Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems.
- Comprising 597 poems of the Belle of Amherst.
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- Eliot, T.S.
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- 1917. Prufrock and Other Observations.
This collection contains one of Eliot’s first and most well-known poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
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- 1920. Poems.
Collection of twelve poems including “Lune de Miel” and “The Hippopotamus.”
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- 1922. The Waste Land.
Perhaps Eliot’s most famous piece, this controversial poem details the journey of the human soul searching for redemption.
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- Frost, Robert
- Frost’s poems are concerned with human tragedies and fears, his reaction to the complexities of life and his ultimate acceptance of his burdens.
1915. A Boy’s Will.
1915. North of Boston.
1920. Mountain Interval.
1920. Miscellaneous Poems.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Keats, John. 1884. Poetical Works.
- A master of blank and lyrical verse, this collection includes all of Keats’s major and minor works.
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- 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.
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- Masters, Edgar Lee. 1916. Spoon River Anthology.
- In these post-mortem autobiographical “epitaphs,” 244 former citizens reveal the truth about their lives—with the honesty no fear of consequences enables.
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- Millay, Edna St. Vincent. 1917. Renascence and Other Poems.
- Millay’s first volume of poetry was praised for its freshness and vitality.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Sandburg, Carl
- Carl Sandburg celebrated his romance with America in these three early collections.
1916. Chicago Poems.
1918. Cornhuskers.
1920. Smoke and Steel.
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- Sassoon, Siegfried
- At times violent, always honest, Sassoon’s poetry expresses his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in grim, forceful, realistic verse.
1918. The Old Huntsman and Other Poems.
1918. Counter-Attack and Other Poems.
1920. Picture-Show.
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- Shakespeare, William. 1914. The Oxford Shakespeare.
- The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse that constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of Western civilization.
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- Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1901. Complete Poetical Works.
- This partial collection of Shelley’s poetry reveals his philosophy, a combination of belief in the power of human love and reason, and faith in the perfectibility and ultimate progress of man.
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- Stein, Gertrude. 1914. Tender Buttons.
- A poetic series of “cubist” verbal portraits on such things as objects, food and rooms.
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- Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1913. A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods, with Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Harvey.
- Two of Stevenson’s best-loved verse collections comprising 121 poems, some in Scots.
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- Vergil. 1909–14. Æneid.
- The greatest of Latin epics, concerning the mythic founder of Rome.
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- Whitman, Walt. 1900. Leaves of Grass.
- In 1855 Whitman published Leaves of Grass (later known as Song of Myself) in which the author proclaims himself the symbolic representative of common people.
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- Wilde, Oscar. 1881. Poems.
- This first of Wilde’s published works was well received and served as a springboard for his 1882 United States lecture tour.
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- Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works.
- This 1888 complete collection contains nearly 900 of Wordworth’s poems.
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- Yeats, William Butler
- Collections of verse by one of the greatest lyric poets of twentieth-century literature.
1899. The Wind Among the Reeds.
1916. Responsibilities and Other Poems.
1919. The Wild Swans at Coole.
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