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Table of contents
- Authors List
- Preface
- Preface to New Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Index Of First Lines
- Anonymous. XIII-XIV Century
- Robert Mannyng of Brunne. b. 1288, d. 1338
- William Langland. b. ?1332, d. ?1400
- John Barbour. b. ?1316, d. 1395
- Geoffrey Chaucer. b. ?1340, d. 1400
- Thomas Hoccleve. b. ?1368/9, d. ?1450
- John Lydgate. b. ?1370, d. ?1450
- King James I of Scotland. b. 1394, d. 1437
- Robert Henryson. b. 1425, d. 1500
- William Dunbar. b. 1465, d. ?1520
- Anonymous. XV-XVI Century
- John Skelton. b. ?1460, d. 1529
- Stephen Hawes. d. 1523
- Sir Thomas Wyatt. b. 1503, d. 1542
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. b. 1516, d. 1547
- Nicholas Grimald. b. 1519, d. 1562
- Alexander Scott. b. ?1525, d. ?1584
- Robert Wever. c . 1550
- Richard Edwardes. b. 1523, d. 1566
- George Gascoigne. b. ?1525, d. 1577
- Alexander Montgomerie. b. ?1540, d. ?1610
- William Stevenson. b. ?1530, d. 1575
- Anonymous. XVI-XVII Century
- Nicholas Breton. b. 1542, d. 1626
- Sir Walter Raleigh. b. 1552, d. 1618
- Edmund Spenser. b. 1552, d. 1599
- John Lyly. b. 1553, d. 1606
- Anthony Munday. b. 1553, d. 1633
- Sir Philip Sidney. b. 1554, d. 1586
- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke. b. 1554, d. 1628
- Thomas Lodge. b. ?1556, d. 1625
- George Peele. b. ?1558, d. 1597
- Robert Greene. b. 1560, d. 1592
- George Chapman. b. 1560, d. 1634
- Robert Southwell. b. ?1561, d. 1595
- Henry Constable. b. ?1562, d. ?1613
- Samuel Daniel. b. 1562, d. 1619
- Mark Alexander Boyd. b. 1563, d. 1601
- Joshua Sylvester. b. 1561, d. 1618
- Michael Drayton. b. 1563, d. 1631
- Christopher Marlowe. b. 1564, d. 1593
- William Shakespeare. b. 1564, d. 1616
- Richard Rowlands. b. 1565, d. ?1630
- Thomas Nashe. b. 1567, d. 1601
- Thomas Campian. b. 1567, d. 1619
- John Reynolds. 16th Cent.
- Sir Henry Wotton. b. 1568, d. 1639
- Sir John Davies. b. 1569, d. 1626
- Sir Robert Ayton. b. 1570, d. 1638
- Ben Jonson. b. 1573, d. 1637
- John Donne. b. 1573, d. 1631
- Richard Barnefield. b. 1574, d. 1627
- Thomas Dekker. b. 1575, d. 1641
- Thomas Heywood. b. ?1575, d. 1650
- John Fletcher. b. 1579, d. 1625
- John Webster. b. ?1580, d. ?1630
- William Alexander, Earl of Stirling. b. ?1580, d. 1640
- Phineas Fletcher. b. 1580, d. 1650
- Lord Herbert of Cherbury. b. 1583, d. 1648
- Sir John Beaumont. b. 1583, d. 1627
- William Drummond, of Hawthornden, b. 1585, d. 1649
- Giles Fletcher. b. ?1588, d. 1623
- Francis Beaumont. b. 1586, d. 1616
- John Ford. b. 1586, d. 1639
- George Wither. b. 1588, d. 1667
- William Browne, of Tavistock. b. 1588, d. 1643
- Robert Herrick. b. 1591, d. 1674
- Francis Quarles. b. 1592, d. 1644
- Henry King, Bishop of Chichester. b. 1592, d. 1669
- George Herbert. b. 1593, d. 1632
- James Shirley. b. 1596, d. 1666
- Thomas Carew. b. ?1595, d. ?1639
- Jasper Mayne. b. 1604, d. 1672
- William Habington. b. 1605, d. 1654
- Thomas Randolph. b. 1605, d. 1635
- Sir William Davenant. b. 1606, d. 1668
- Edmund Waller. b. 1606, d. 1687
- John Milton. b. 1608, d. 1674
- Sir John Suckling. b. 1609, d. 1642
- Sir Richard Fanshawe. b. 1608, d. 1666
- William Cartwright. b. 1611, d. 1643
- James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. b. 1612, d. 1650
- Thomas Jordan. b. ?1612, d. 1685
- Richard Crashaw. b. ?1613, d. 1649
- Richard Lovelace. b. 1618, d. 1658
- Abraham Cowley. b. 1618, d. 1667
- Alexander Brome. b. 1620, d. 1666
- Andrew Marvell. b. 1621, d. 1678
- Henry Vaughan. b. 1621, d. 1695
- John Bunyan. b. 1628, d. 1688
- Anonymous Ballads and Songs
- William Strode. b. 1602, d. 1645
- Thomas Stanley. b. 1625, d. 1678
- Thomas D’Urfey. b. 1653, d. 1723
- Charles Cotton. b. 1630, d. 1687
- Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’). b. 1631, d. 1664
- Thomas Traherne. b. ?1637, d. 1674
- John Dryden. b. 1631, d. 1700
- Charles Webbe. c . 1678
- Sir George Etherege. b. 1635, d. 1691
- Thomas Flatman. b. 1637, d. 1688
- Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset. b. 1638, d. 1706
- Sir Charles Sedley. b. 1639, d. 1701
- Aphra Behn. b. 1640, d. 1689
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. b. 1647, d. 1680
- John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire. b. 1648, d. 1721
- Thomas Otway. b. 1652, d. 1685
- John Oldham. b. 1653, d. 1683
- Matthew Prior. b. 1664, d. 1721
- William Walsh. b. 1663, d. 1708
- Lady Grisel Baillie. b. 1665, d. 1746
- William Congreve. b. 1670, d. 1729
- Joseph Addison. b. 1672, d. 1719
- Isaac Watts. b. 1674, d. 1748
- Thomas Parnell. b. 1679, d. 1718
- Allan Ramsay. b. 1686, d. 1758
- William Oldys. b. 1687, d. 1761
- John Gay. b. 1685, d. 1732
- Alexander Pope. b. 1688, d. 1744
- Anonymous
- Henry Carey. b. ?1693, d. 1743
- William Broome. b. 1689, d. 1745
- James Thomson. b. 1700, d. 1748
- Charles Wesley. b. 1707, d. 1788
- Samuel Johnson. b. 1709, d. 1784
- Richard Jago. b. 1715, d. 1781
- Anonymous
- William Shenstone. b. 1714, d. 1763
- Thomas Gray. b. 1716, d. 1771
- William Collins. b. 1721, d. 1759
- Mark Akenside. b. 1721, d. 1770
- Thomas Osbert Mordaunt. b. 1730, d. 1809
- John Scott of Amwell. b. 1730, d. 1783
- Tobias George Smollett. b. 1721, d. 1771
- Christopher Smart. b. 1722, d. 1770
- Jane Elliot. b. 1727, d. 1805
- Oliver Goldsmith. b. 1728, d. 1774.
- Robert Cunninghame-Graham of Gartmore. b. 1735, d. 1797
- William Cowper. b. 1731, d. 1800
- James Beattie. b. 1735, d. 1803
- Isobel Pagan. b. 1740, d. 1821
- Anna Lætitia Barbauld. b. 1743, d. 1825
- Fanny Greville. 18th century
- Michael Bruce. b. 1740, d. 1767
- Lady Anne Lindsay. b. 1750, d. 1825
- Sir William Jones. b. 1746, d. 1794
- Thomas Chatterton. b. 1752, d. 1770
- George Crabbe. b. 1754, d. 1832
- William Blake. b. 1757, d. 1827
- Robert Burns. b. 1759, d. 1796
- Henry Rowe. b. 1754, d. 1819
- William Lisle Bowles. b. 1762, d. 1850
- Joanna Baillie. b. 1762, d. 1851
- Mary Lamb. b. 1765, d. 1847
- Carolina, Lady Nairne. b. 1766, d. 1845
- James Hogg. b. 1770, d. 1835
- William Wordsworth. b. 1770, d. 1850
- Sir Walter Scott. b. 1771, d. 1832
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. b. 1772, d. 1834
- Robert Southey. b. 1774, d. 1843
- Walter Savage Landor. b. 1775, d. 1864
- Joseph Blanco White. b. 1775, d. 1841
- Samuel Rogers. b. 1763, d. 1855
- Charles Lamb. b. 1775, d. 1834
- Thomas Campbell. b. 1774, d. 1844
- Thomas Moore. b. 1779, d. 1852
- Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow. b. 1781, d. 1829
- Ebenezer Elliott. b. 1781, d. 1849
- Allan Cunningham. b. 1784, d. 1842
- Leigh Hunt. b. 1784, d. 1859
- John Kenyon. b. 1784, d. 1856
- Thomas Love Peacock. b. 1785, d. 1866
- Bryan Waller Procter. b. 1787, d. 1874
- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron. b. 1788, d. 1824
- Sir Aubrey de Vere. b. 1788, d. 1846
- Charles Wolfe. b. 1791, d. 1823
- Percy Bysshe Shelley. b. 1792, d. 1822
- John Keble. b. 1792, d. 1866
- John Clare. b. 1793, d. 1864
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans. b. 1793, d. 1835
- John Gibson Lockhart. b. 1794, d. 1854
- John Keats. b. 1795, d. 1821
- William Cullen Bryant. b. 1794, d. 1878
- Jeremiah Joseph Callanan. b. 1795, d. 1829
- William Sidney Walker. b. 1795, d. 1846
- George Darley. b. 1795, d. 1846
- Hartley Coleridge. b. 1796, d. 1849
- Thomas Hood. b. 1798, d. 1845
- Anonymous
- William Thom. b. 1798, d. 1848
- Sir Henry Taylor. b. 1800, d. 1886
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay. b. 1800, d. 1859
- William Barnes. b. 1801, d. 1886
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed. b. 1802, d. 1839
- Gerald Griffin. b. 1803, d. 1840
- James Clarence Mangan. b. 1803, d. 1849
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes. b. 1803, d. 1849
- Ralph Waldo Emerson. b. 1803, d. 1882
- Richard Henry Horne. b. 1803, d. 1884
- Charles Whitehead. b. 1804, d. 1862
- Robert Stephen Hawker. b. 1804, d. 1875
- Francis Mahony. b. 1805, d. 1866
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning. b. 1806, d. 1861
- Frederick Tennyson. b. 1807, d. 1898
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. b. 1807, d. 1882
- John Greenleaf Whittier. b. 1807, d. 1892
- Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton. b. 1808, d. 1876
- Charles Tennyson Turner. b. 1808, d. 1879
- Edgar Allan Poe. b. 1809, d. 1849
- Edward Fitzgerald. b. 1809, d. 1883
- Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton. b. 1809, d. 1885
- Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson. b. 1809, d. 1892
- Sir Samuel Ferguson. b. 1810, d. 1886
- Sir Francis Hastings Doyle. b. 1810, d. 1888
- William Makepeace Thackeray. b. 1811, d. 1863
- Robert Browning. b. 1812, d. 1889
- William Bell Scott. b. 1812, d. 1890
- Aubrey de Vere. b. 1814, d. 1902
- George Fox. b. 1815
- Emily Brontëe. b. 1818, d. 1848
- Charles Kingsley. b. 1819, d. 1875
- Arthur Hugh Clough. b. 1819, d. 1861
- Walt Whitman. b. 1819, d. 1892
- John Ruskin. b. 1819, d. 1900
- Ebenezer Jones. b. 1820, d. 1860
- Anonymous
- Matthew Arnold. b. 1822, d. 1888
- William Brighty Rands. b. 1823, d. 1880
- William Philpot. b. 1823, d. 1889
- William (Johnson) Cory. b. 1823, d. 1892
- Coventry Patmore. b. 1823, d. 1896
- Sydney Dobell. b. 1824, d. 1874
- William Allingham. b. 1824, d. 1889
- George Macdonald. b. 1824, d. 1905
- Walter Chalmers Smith. b. 1824, d. 1908
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti. b. 1828, d. 1882
- George Meredith. b. 1828, d. 1909
- Emily Dickinson. b. 1830, d. 1886
- Christina Georgina Rossetti. b. 1830, d. 1894
- Jean Ingelow. b. 1820, d. 1897
- Thomas Edward Brown. b. 1830, d. 1897
- Richard Watson Dixon. b. 1833, d. 1900
- James Thomson. b. 1834, d. 1882.
- George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier b. 1834, d. 1896
- William Morris. b. 1834, d. 1896
- John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley. b. 1835, d. 1895
- Algernon Charles Swinburne. b. 1837, d. 1909
- Bret Harte. b. 1836, d. 1902
- William Dean Howells. b. 1837, d. 1920
- Thomas Hardy. b. 1840, d. 1928
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. b. 1840, d. 1922
- Henry Austin Dobson. b. 1840, d. 1921
- Henry Clarence Kendall. b. 1841, d. 1882.
- Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy. b. 1844, d. 1881
- Gerard Manley Hopkins. b. 1844, d. 1889.
- John Boyle O’Reilly. b. 1844, d. 1890
- Andrew Lang. b. 1844, d. 1912
- Robert Bridges. b. 1844, d. 1930
- Alice Meynell. b. 1847, d. 1922
- Hon. Emily Lawless. b. 1845, d. 1913
- William Ernest Henley. b. 1849, d. 1903
- Sir Edmund Gosse. b. 1849, d. 1928
- Selwyn Image. b. 1849, d. 1930
- Robert Louis Stevenson. b. 1850, d. 1894
- Francis William Bourdillon. b. 1852, d. 1921
- Dora Sigerson. d. 1918
- Margaret L. Woods. b. 1856
- Thomas William Rolleston. b. 1857, d. 1920
- Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux. b. 1857
- John Davidson. b. 1857, d. 1909
- Sir William Watson. b. 1858, d. 1935
- Francis Thompson. b. 1859, d. 1907
- Ernest Rhys. b. 1859
- Henry Charles Beeching. b. 1859, d. 1919.
- Alfred Edward Housman. b. 1859, d. 1936
- Bliss Carman. b. 1861, d. 1929
- Douglas Hyde. b. 1861
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. b. 1861, d. 1907
- May Probyn
- Sir Gilbert Parker. b. 1862, d. 1932
- Henry Cust. b. 1861, d. 1917
- Sir Henry Newbolt. b. 1862, d. 1938
- Eden Phillpotts. b. 1862
- Katharine Tynan Hinkson. b. 1861, d. 1931
- Arthur Christopher Benson. b. 1862, d. 1925
- Norman Gale. b. 1862
- Frances Bannerman
- Stephen Phillips. b. 1864, d. 1915
- Rudyard Kipling. b. 1865, d. 1936
- William Butler Yeats. b. 1865, d. 1939
- Herbert Trench. b. 1865, d. 1923
- Richard Le Gallienne. b. 1866
- Lionel Johnson. b. 1867, d. 1902
- George William Russell (‘Æ’). b. 1867, d. 1935
- Ernest Dowson. b. 1867, d. 1900
- Laurence Binyon. b. 1869
- Lord Alfred Douglas. b. 1870
- Thomas Sturge Moore. b. 1870
- Hilaire Belloc. b. 1870
- William Henry Davies. b. 1871
- John Swinnerton Phillimore. b. 1873, d. 1926
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton. b. 1872, d. 1936
- Ralph Hodgson. b. 1872
- Walter De La Mare. b. 1873
- Gordon Bottomley. b. 1874
- John Alexander Chapman. b. 1875
- John Masefield. b. 1878
- Oliver St. John Gogarty. b. 1878
- Wilfrid Thorley. b. 1878
- Edward Thomas. b. 1878, d. 1917
- Alfred Noyes. b. 1880
- Herbert Edward Palmer. b. 1880
- Lascelles Abercrombie. b. 1881, d. 1938
- Padraic Colum. b. 1881
- James Joyce. b. 1882
- James Stephens. b. 1882
- James Elroy Flecker, b. 1884, d. 1915
- Charles Williams. b. 1886, d. 1945
- Siegfried Sassoon. b. 1886
- Rupert Brooke. b. 1887, d. 1915
- Julian Grenfell. b. 1888, d. 1915
- Wilfrid Owen. b. 1893, d. 1918
- Charles Hamilton Sorley. b. 1895, d. 1915
- Edmund Blunden b. 1896
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore. b. 1825, d. 1900
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