The Oxford Book of English Verse

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 is an anthology of English poetry, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry and remained the leading general anthology of English verse throughout the 20th century. Poets included in the collections are:

Geoffrey Chaucer

Alexander Pope

Christopher Marlowe

Edmund Spenser

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Emily Brontë

Robert Browning

Robert Burns

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Milton

John Ruskin

John Keats

William Butler Yeats

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Wordsworth

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Thomas Love Peacock

George Meredith

Lord Tennyson

John Bunyan

John Dryden

Sir Walter Scott

Robert Louis Stevenson

Rudyard Kipling

George MacDonald

William Blake

James Joyce

Emily Dickinson

Walt Whitman

And many more.