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- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface xxv
- Acknowledgments xxix
- Introduction 1
- John Gower (1330?–1408) from Confessio Amantis 27
- William Langland (1330?–1386?) from The Vision of Piers Plowman 29
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?–1400) from The Canterbury Tales 31
- Thomas Hoccleve (1367?–1426) from La Male Regle de T. Hoccleue 37
- John Lydgate (1370?–1449/50) from King Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London 40
- Anon. (15th century) London Lickpenny 49
- John Skelton (1460?–1529) from Collyn Clout 54
- Anon. (1500?) “London, thou art of townes A per se” 56
- Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) “Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams” 59
- “Who list his wealth and ease retain” 60
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?–1547) “London, hast thou accusèd me” 61
- Anne Askew (1521–1546) The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate 63
- George Turberville (1544?–1597?) The Lover to the Thames of London, to Favour His Lady Passing Thereon 65
- Isabella Whitney (1548?–?) The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and to All Those in It, at Her Departing 66
- Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) Prothalamion 76
- George Peele (1556–1596) from King Edward the First 82
- Chidiock Tichborne (1558?–1586) Tichborne’s Elegy 83
- Michael Drayton (1563–1631) from Poly-Olbion 84
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616) from Henry VI, Part II 85
- from Henry V 87
- from Henry VIII 90
- Thomas Nashe (1567?–1601) from Summer’s Last Will and Testament 95
- Everard Guilpin (1572?–?) from Skialetheia 96
- Ben Jonson (1572?–1637) from The Devil Is an Ass 101
- On the Famous Voyage 104
- John Donne (1572–1631) Satire 1 110
- To Mr. E. G. 114
- Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn 115
- Satire 4 118
- Twickenham Garden 125
- John Taylor (1580–1653) from The Sculler 126
- from Sir Gregory Nonsense’s News from No Place 127
- Philip Massinger (1583–1640) from The City Madam 129
- Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) from The Knight of the Burning Pestle 132
- Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) Letter to Ben Jonson 134
- On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey 137
- Thomas Freeman (1590?–1630?) from London’s Progress 139
- W. Turner (?) from Turner’s Dish of Lenten Stuff, or a Gallimaufry 140
- Abraham Holland (?–1626) from London, Look Back 144
- Robert Herrick (1591–1674) An Ode for Him [Ben Jonson] 146
- His Return to London 147
- His Tears to Thamasis 148
- Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) London Sad London: An Echo 149
- Edmund Waller (1606–1687) On the Statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross 150
- On St. James’s Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty 151
- John Milton (1608–1674) When the Assault Was Intended to the City 155
- Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) A Ballad upon a Wedding 156
- Thomas Jordan (1612?–1685) from The Cheaters Cheated 161
- from The Triumphs of London 162
- A Song Sung at the Lord Mayor’s Table in Honour of the City and the Goldsmiths Company 165
- Sir John Denham (1615–1669) from Cooper’s Hill 168
- Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) from The Civil War 170
- Richard Lovelace (1618–1657/8) To Althea, from Prison: Song 172
- Simon Ford (1619?–1699) from London’s Resurrection 174
- Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) A Rhapsody 178
- Anon. (17th century) The Cries of London 181
- Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland 182
- John Dryden (1631–1700) from Annus Mirabilis 186
- from MacFlecknoe 199
- Anon. (pub. 1680) In the Fields of Lincoln’s Inn 203
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) from A Letter from Artemisa in the Town to Chloe in the Country 205
- Song (“Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to Counselor Knight”) 211
- A Ramble in St. James’s Park 212
- John Oldham (1653–1683) from A Satire in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal 217
- Anon. (1684) A Winter Wonder; or, the Thames Frozen Over, with Remarks on the Resort There 228
- Anon. (1684) from The Wonders of the Deep 231
- Pierre Antoine Motteux (1660–1718) A Song 233
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) A Description of the Morning 234
- A Description of a City Shower 235
- Clever Tom Clinch 237
- A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 238
- from On Poetry: A Rhapsody 241
- John Gay (1685–1732) from Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London 243
- from The Beggar’s Opera 254
- Anon. (pub. 1719) The Fair Lass of Islington 255
- Alexander Pope (1688–1744) The Alley. An Imitation of Spenser 258
- A Farewell to London in the Year 1715 260
- Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation 262
- from The Dunciad 264
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) from Six Town Eclogues 276
- Elizabeth Tollet (1694–1754) On the Prospect from Westminster Bridge, March 1750 279
- John Bancks (1709–1751) A Description of London 280
- Anon. (1739) Hail, London! 281
- Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) from London 283
- Nursery Rhymes (pub. 18th–19th centuries) London Bridge 289
- Oranges and Lemons 290
- “Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?” 291
- “Poussie, poussie, baudrons” 292
- “Up at Piccadilly oh!” 292
- “See-saw, sacradown” 292
- “Upon Paul’s steeple stands a tree” 293
- “As I was going o’er London Bridge” 293
- “As I was going o’er London Bridge” 293
- “I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod” 293
- Pop Goes the Weasel 294
- William Whitehead (1715–1785) The Sweepers 295
- Oliver Goldsmith (1729–1774) Description of an Author’s Bedchamber 299
- William Cowper (1731–1800) from The Task 300
- Charles Jenner (1736–1774) from Town Eclogues 303
- Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) Song for the London Volunteers 307
- West End Fair 309
- Charles Dibdin (1745?–1814) The Jolly Young Waterman 311
- Poll of Wapping 312
- Hannah More (1745–1833) from The Gin-Shop; or, A Peep into Prison 313
- Mary Robinson (1757–1800) London’s Summer Morning 316
- William Blake (1757–1827) Holy Thursday 318
- The Chimney Sweeper 319
- London 320
- from Jerusalem 321
- Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) London 325
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850) The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale 327
- The Reverie of Poor Susan 330
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 331
- from The Prelude 332
- James Smith (1775–1839) and Horace Smith (1779–1849) from Horace in London 343
- Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) To Hampstead 346
- Description of Hampstead 347
- Lord Byron (1788–1824) from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 348
- from Don Juan 349
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) from Letter to Maria Gisborne 357
- from Peter Bell the Third 359
- John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852) Sonnet 362
- John Keats (1795–1821) “To one who has been long in city pent” 363
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 364
- Lines on the Mermaid Tavern 365
- Thomas Hood (1799–1845) Moral Reflections on the Cross of St. Paul’s 366
- The Lord Mayor’s Show 368
- Sonnet to Vauxhall 370
- The Workhouse Clock: An Allegory 371
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) Scenes in London: Piccadilly 374
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) Goodnight to the Season 377
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) from Aurora Leigh 381
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) from In Memoriam 383
- from Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 384
- Cleopatra’s Needle 387
- Anon. (1851) Have You Been to the Crystal Palace? 388
- Robert Browning (1812–1889) from Waring 392
- Edward Lear (1812–1888) There Was an Old Person of Putney 395
- There Was an Old Man of Blackheath 395
- There Was a Young Person of Kew 395
- There Was an Old Person of Bow 395
- There Was a Young Lady of Greenwich 395
- There Was an Old Person of Ealing 396
- There Was an Old Person of Bromley 396
- There Was an Old Person of Sheen 396
- There Was an Old Man of Thames Ditton 396
- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) To the Great Metropolis 397
- In the Great Metropolis 398
- “Blessed are those who have not seen” 399
- “Ye flags of Piccadilly” 400
- Anon. (19th century) from The Cries of London 401
- George Eliot (1819–1880) In a London Drawingroom 402
- Anon. (1869) Strike of the London Cabmen 403
- Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) St. James’s Street 405
- Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 407
- West London 409
- East London 410
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) Tiber, Nile, and Thames 411
- Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) A London Fête 412
- James Thomson (1834–1882) from Sunday at Hampstead 414
- Henry S. Leigh (1837–1883) A Cockney’s Evening Song 423
- Anon. (1893) Bloomsbury 424
- Austin Dobson (1840–1921) A New Song of the Spring Garden 426
- Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) Beyond the Last Lamp 427
- The Coronation 429
- In the British Museum 431
- In St. Paul’s a While Ago 432
- Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening 434
- A Refusal 435
- To a Tree in London 437
- Christmas in the Elgin Room 438
- W. H. Hudson (1841–1922) To a London Sparrow 440
- Robert Bridges (1844–1930) London Snow 442
- Trafalgar Square 444
- W. E. Henley (1849–1903) from London Voluntaries 445
- from London Types 446
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Impression du Matin 452
- John Davidson (1857–1909) London 453
- Thirty Bob a Week 454
- In the Isle of Dogs 457
- Fog 460
- from The Thames Embankment 461
- A. E. Housman (1859–1936) “From the wash the laundress sends” 463
- Mary E. Coleridge (1861–1907) In London Town 464
- Amy Levy (1861–1889) A March Day in London 465
- Straw in the Street 466
- London Poets 467
- Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) In Partibus 468
- The River’s Tale 471
- London Stone 473
- The Craftsman 475
- from Epitaphs of the War 476
- Arthur Symons (1865–1945) from London Nights 477
- from Décor de Théâtre 479
- London 481
- W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) from Vacillation 482
- Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) London Town 483
- By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross 486
- Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) In Nunhead Cemetery 488
- Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) As I Walked Through London 491
- T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) The Embankment 492
- Ezra Pound (1885–1972) 493
- D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) 499
- Frances Cornford (1886–1960) 508
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Monody on the Demolition of Devonshire House 510
- T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) 511
- Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) Fleet Street 519
- Richard Aldington (1892–1962) 520
- Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) “I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair” 527
- Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) 528
- John Rodker (1894–1955) 530
- Robert Graves (1895–1985) Armistice Day, 1918 533
- A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962) 535
- Stevie Smith (1902–1971) Suburb 540
- William Empson (1906–1984) Homage to the British Museum 542
- John Betjeman (1906–1984) 543
- Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) 557
- Stephen Spender (1909–1995) 564
- Bernard Spencer (1909–1963) 566
- Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) London Buses 568
- Kenneth Allott (1912–1973) Memento Mori 569
- Roy Fuller (1912–1991) 571
- Anne Ridler (1912–2001) Wentworth Place: Keats Grove 574
- George Barker (1913–1991) Kew Gardens 575
- Alun Lewis (1915–1944) Westminster Abbey 578
- Robert Lowell (1917–1977) 579
- Nicholas Moore (1918–1986) Monmouth Street 582
- John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006) 584
- W. S. Graham (1918–1986) The Night City 586
- Muriel Spark (1918–2006) from A Tour of London 588
- Keith Douglas (1920–1944) from The “Bête Noire” Fragments 590
- D. J. Enright - Ahren Warner (1986–) 591
- Credits und Index 727
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface xxv
- Acknowledgments xxix
- Introduction 1
- John Gower (1330?–1408) from Confessio Amantis 27
- William Langland (1330?–1386?) from The Vision of Piers Plowman 29
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?–1400) from The Canterbury Tales 31
- Thomas Hoccleve (1367?–1426) from La Male Regle de T. Hoccleue 37
- John Lydgate (1370?–1449/50) from King Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London 40
- Anon. (15th century) London Lickpenny 49
- John Skelton (1460?–1529) from Collyn Clout 54
- Anon. (1500?) “London, thou art of townes A per se” 56
- Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) “Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams” 59
- “Who list his wealth and ease retain” 60
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?–1547) “London, hast thou accusèd me” 61
- Anne Askew (1521–1546) The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate 63
- George Turberville (1544?–1597?) The Lover to the Thames of London, to Favour His Lady Passing Thereon 65
- Isabella Whitney (1548?–?) The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and to All Those in It, at Her Departing 66
- Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) Prothalamion 76
- George Peele (1556–1596) from King Edward the First 82
- Chidiock Tichborne (1558?–1586) Tichborne’s Elegy 83
- Michael Drayton (1563–1631) from Poly-Olbion 84
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616) from Henry VI, Part II 85
- from Henry V 87
- from Henry VIII 90
- Thomas Nashe (1567?–1601) from Summer’s Last Will and Testament 95
- Everard Guilpin (1572?–?) from Skialetheia 96
- Ben Jonson (1572?–1637) from The Devil Is an Ass 101
- On the Famous Voyage 104
- John Donne (1572–1631) Satire 1 110
- To Mr. E. G. 114
- Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn 115
- Satire 4 118
- Twickenham Garden 125
- John Taylor (1580–1653) from The Sculler 126
- from Sir Gregory Nonsense’s News from No Place 127
- Philip Massinger (1583–1640) from The City Madam 129
- Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) from The Knight of the Burning Pestle 132
- Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) Letter to Ben Jonson 134
- On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey 137
- Thomas Freeman (1590?–1630?) from London’s Progress 139
- W. Turner (?) from Turner’s Dish of Lenten Stuff, or a Gallimaufry 140
- Abraham Holland (?–1626) from London, Look Back 144
- Robert Herrick (1591–1674) An Ode for Him [Ben Jonson] 146
- His Return to London 147
- His Tears to Thamasis 148
- Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) London Sad London: An Echo 149
- Edmund Waller (1606–1687) On the Statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross 150
- On St. James’s Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty 151
- John Milton (1608–1674) When the Assault Was Intended to the City 155
- Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) A Ballad upon a Wedding 156
- Thomas Jordan (1612?–1685) from The Cheaters Cheated 161
- from The Triumphs of London 162
- A Song Sung at the Lord Mayor’s Table in Honour of the City and the Goldsmiths Company 165
- Sir John Denham (1615–1669) from Cooper’s Hill 168
- Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) from The Civil War 170
- Richard Lovelace (1618–1657/8) To Althea, from Prison: Song 172
- Simon Ford (1619?–1699) from London’s Resurrection 174
- Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) A Rhapsody 178
- Anon. (17th century) The Cries of London 181
- Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland 182
- John Dryden (1631–1700) from Annus Mirabilis 186
- from MacFlecknoe 199
- Anon. (pub. 1680) In the Fields of Lincoln’s Inn 203
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) from A Letter from Artemisa in the Town to Chloe in the Country 205
- Song (“Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to Counselor Knight”) 211
- A Ramble in St. James’s Park 212
- John Oldham (1653–1683) from A Satire in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal 217
- Anon. (1684) A Winter Wonder; or, the Thames Frozen Over, with Remarks on the Resort There 228
- Anon. (1684) from The Wonders of the Deep 231
- Pierre Antoine Motteux (1660–1718) A Song 233
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) A Description of the Morning 234
- A Description of a City Shower 235
- Clever Tom Clinch 237
- A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 238
- from On Poetry: A Rhapsody 241
- John Gay (1685–1732) from Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London 243
- from The Beggar’s Opera 254
- Anon. (pub. 1719) The Fair Lass of Islington 255
- Alexander Pope (1688–1744) The Alley. An Imitation of Spenser 258
- A Farewell to London in the Year 1715 260
- Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation 262
- from The Dunciad 264
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) from Six Town Eclogues 276
- Elizabeth Tollet (1694–1754) On the Prospect from Westminster Bridge, March 1750 279
- John Bancks (1709–1751) A Description of London 280
- Anon. (1739) Hail, London! 281
- Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) from London 283
- Nursery Rhymes (pub. 18th–19th centuries) London Bridge 289
- Oranges and Lemons 290
- “Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?” 291
- “Poussie, poussie, baudrons” 292
- “Up at Piccadilly oh!” 292
- “See-saw, sacradown” 292
- “Upon Paul’s steeple stands a tree” 293
- “As I was going o’er London Bridge” 293
- “As I was going o’er London Bridge” 293
- “I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod” 293
- Pop Goes the Weasel 294
- William Whitehead (1715–1785) The Sweepers 295
- Oliver Goldsmith (1729–1774) Description of an Author’s Bedchamber 299
- William Cowper (1731–1800) from The Task 300
- Charles Jenner (1736–1774) from Town Eclogues 303
- Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) Song for the London Volunteers 307
- West End Fair 309
- Charles Dibdin (1745?–1814) The Jolly Young Waterman 311
- Poll of Wapping 312
- Hannah More (1745–1833) from The Gin-Shop; or, A Peep into Prison 313
- Mary Robinson (1757–1800) London’s Summer Morning 316
- William Blake (1757–1827) Holy Thursday 318
- The Chimney Sweeper 319
- London 320
- from Jerusalem 321
- Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) London 325
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850) The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale 327
- The Reverie of Poor Susan 330
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 331
- from The Prelude 332
- James Smith (1775–1839) and Horace Smith (1779–1849) from Horace in London 343
- Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) To Hampstead 346
- Description of Hampstead 347
- Lord Byron (1788–1824) from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 348
- from Don Juan 349
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) from Letter to Maria Gisborne 357
- from Peter Bell the Third 359
- John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852) Sonnet 362
- John Keats (1795–1821) “To one who has been long in city pent” 363
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 364
- Lines on the Mermaid Tavern 365
- Thomas Hood (1799–1845) Moral Reflections on the Cross of St. Paul’s 366
- The Lord Mayor’s Show 368
- Sonnet to Vauxhall 370
- The Workhouse Clock: An Allegory 371
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) Scenes in London: Piccadilly 374
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) Goodnight to the Season 377
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) from Aurora Leigh 381
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) from In Memoriam 383
- from Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 384
- Cleopatra’s Needle 387
- Anon. (1851) Have You Been to the Crystal Palace? 388
- Robert Browning (1812–1889) from Waring 392
- Edward Lear (1812–1888) There Was an Old Person of Putney 395
- There Was an Old Man of Blackheath 395
- There Was a Young Person of Kew 395
- There Was an Old Person of Bow 395
- There Was a Young Lady of Greenwich 395
- There Was an Old Person of Ealing 396
- There Was an Old Person of Bromley 396
- There Was an Old Person of Sheen 396
- There Was an Old Man of Thames Ditton 396
- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) To the Great Metropolis 397
- In the Great Metropolis 398
- “Blessed are those who have not seen” 399
- “Ye flags of Piccadilly” 400
- Anon. (19th century) from The Cries of London 401
- George Eliot (1819–1880) In a London Drawingroom 402
- Anon. (1869) Strike of the London Cabmen 403
- Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) St. James’s Street 405
- Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 407
- West London 409
- East London 410
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) Tiber, Nile, and Thames 411
- Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) A London Fête 412
- James Thomson (1834–1882) from Sunday at Hampstead 414
- Henry S. Leigh (1837–1883) A Cockney’s Evening Song 423
- Anon. (1893) Bloomsbury 424
- Austin Dobson (1840–1921) A New Song of the Spring Garden 426
- Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) Beyond the Last Lamp 427
- The Coronation 429
- In the British Museum 431
- In St. Paul’s a While Ago 432
- Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening 434
- A Refusal 435
- To a Tree in London 437
- Christmas in the Elgin Room 438
- W. H. Hudson (1841–1922) To a London Sparrow 440
- Robert Bridges (1844–1930) London Snow 442
- Trafalgar Square 444
- W. E. Henley (1849–1903) from London Voluntaries 445
- from London Types 446
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Impression du Matin 452
- John Davidson (1857–1909) London 453
- Thirty Bob a Week 454
- In the Isle of Dogs 457
- Fog 460
- from The Thames Embankment 461
- A. E. Housman (1859–1936) “From the wash the laundress sends” 463
- Mary E. Coleridge (1861–1907) In London Town 464
- Amy Levy (1861–1889) A March Day in London 465
- Straw in the Street 466
- London Poets 467
- Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) In Partibus 468
- The River’s Tale 471
- London Stone 473
- The Craftsman 475
- from Epitaphs of the War 476
- Arthur Symons (1865–1945) from London Nights 477
- from Décor de Théâtre 479
- London 481
- W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) from Vacillation 482
- Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) London Town 483
- By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross 486
- Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) In Nunhead Cemetery 488
- Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) As I Walked Through London 491
- T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) The Embankment 492
- Ezra Pound (1885–1972) 493
- D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) 499
- Frances Cornford (1886–1960) 508
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Monody on the Demolition of Devonshire House 510
- T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) 511
- Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) Fleet Street 519
- Richard Aldington (1892–1962) 520
- Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) “I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair” 527
- Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) 528
- John Rodker (1894–1955) 530
- Robert Graves (1895–1985) Armistice Day, 1918 533
- A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962) 535
- Stevie Smith (1902–1971) Suburb 540
- William Empson (1906–1984) Homage to the British Museum 542
- John Betjeman (1906–1984) 543
- Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) 557
- Stephen Spender (1909–1995) 564
- Bernard Spencer (1909–1963) 566
- Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) London Buses 568
- Kenneth Allott (1912–1973) Memento Mori 569
- Roy Fuller (1912–1991) 571
- Anne Ridler (1912–2001) Wentworth Place: Keats Grove 574
- George Barker (1913–1991) Kew Gardens 575
- Alun Lewis (1915–1944) Westminster Abbey 578
- Robert Lowell (1917–1977) 579
- Nicholas Moore (1918–1986) Monmouth Street 582
- John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006) 584
- W. S. Graham (1918–1986) The Night City 586
- Muriel Spark (1918–2006) from A Tour of London 588
- Keith Douglas (1920–1944) from The “Bête Noire” Fragments 590
- D. J. Enright - Ahren Warner (1986–) 591
- Credits und Index 727