CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION ix
4. 1 Homer 1
5. 2 Sappho 5
6. 3 Virgil 7
7. 4 Horace 11
8. 5 Ovid 13
9. 6 Anonymous Anglo-Saxon 15
10. 7 Dante Alighieri 17
11. 8 Geoffrey Chaucer 19
12. 9 William Langland 21
13. 10 Hafiz 24
14. 11 John Skelton 26
15. 12 Sir Thomas Wyatt 29
16. 13 Edmund Spenser 31
17. 14 Christopher Marlowe 35
18. 15 William Shakespeare 37
19. 16 John Donne 40
20. 17 Ben Jonson 45
21. 18 Robert Herrick 50
22. 19 Andrew Marvell 52
23. 20 George Herbert 58
24. 21 Henry Vaughan 60
25. 22 Thomas Traherne 63
26. 23 John Milton 65
27. 24 John Dryden 70
28. 25 Alexander Pope 74
29. 26 Samuel Johnson 79
30. 27 Oliver Goldsmith 83
31. 28 John Gay 86
32. 29 Phillis Wheatley 88
33. 30 Stephen Duck 89
34. 31 John Clare 91
35. 32 William Cowper 95
36. 33 Thomas Gray 99
37. 34 William Wordsworth 103
38. 35 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 108
39. 36 John Keats 111
40. 37 Percy Bysshe Shelley 113
41. 38 William Blake 115
42. 39 George Gordon, Lord Byron 116
43. 40 Robert Burns 118
44. 41 Heinrich Heine 121
45. 42 Rainer Maria Rilke 123
46. 43 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 124
47. 44 Robert Browning 127
48. 45 Arthur Hugh Clough 130
49. 46 Matthew Arnold 132
50. 47 Emily Brontë 134
51. 48 Christina Rossetti 136
52. 49 Edgar Allan Poe 139
53. 50 Walt Whitman 144
54. 51 Emily Dickinson 147
55. 52 Charles Baudelaire 151
56. 53 Dylan Thomas 153
57. 54 Edward Lear 155
58. 55 Lewis Carroll 157
59. 56 Charlotte Mew 159
60. 57 Oscar Wilde 161
61. 58 Algernon Charles Swinburne 164
62. 59 Thomas Hardy 167
63. 60 Rudyard Kipling 172
64. 61 A.E. Housman 174
65. 62 Gerard Manley Hopkins 177
66. 63 Edward Thomas 179
67. 64 Robert Frost 182
68. 65 W.H. Davies 184
69. 66 G.K. Chesterton 187
70. 67 Robert Graves 192
71. 68 D.H. Lawrence 194
72. 69 Wilfred Owen 198
73. 70 Isaac Rosenberg 200
74. 71 May Wedderburn Cannan 202
75. 72 John McCrae 205
76. 73 W.B. Yeats 206
77. 74 T.S. Eliot 209
78. 75 Ezra Pound 211
79. 76 T.E. Hulme 213
80. 77 William Carlos Williams 215
81. 78 Helene Johnson 217
82. 79 Langston Hughes 220
83. 80 Elizabeth Bishop 222
84. 81 W.H. Auden 225
85. 82 Louis MacNeice 227
86. 83 Keith Douglas 230
87. 84 Alun Lewis 232
88. 85 Henry Reed 234
89. 86 Louis Simpson 236
90. 87 Richard Wilbur 239
91. 88 Randall Jarrell 240
92. 89 John Pudney 242
93. 90 Lois Clark 243
94. 91 Theodore Roethke 245
95. 92 Philip Larkin 247
96. 93 D.J. Enright 249
97. 94 Thom Gunn 250
98. 95 Ted Hughes 252
99. 96 Sylvia Plath 254
100. 97 R.S. Thomas 257
101. 98 Seamus Heaney 259
102. 99 Maya Angelou 261
103. 100 Les Murray 263
104. Acknowledgements 265