Arnold,Matthew 1822-1888 1
Barbauld,Anna Laetitia 1743-1825 3
Baddoes,Thomas Lovell 1803-1849 5
Blake,William 1757-1827 7
Bourdillon,Francis William 1852-1921 9
Brewer,Ebenezer Cobham 1810-1897 11
Browning,Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861 13
Bryant,William Cullen 1794-1878 19
Burns,Robert 1759-1796 27
Byron,George Gordon 1788-1824 31
Campbell,Joseph 1879-1944 39
Campbell,Thomas 1777-1844 41
Carew,Thomas 1595-1640 45
Carlyle,Thomas 1795-1881 47
Carpenter,Edward 1844-1929 49
Cibber,Colley 1671-1757 51
Clare,John 1793-1864 55
Coleridge,Hartley 1796-1849 59
Coleridge,Samuel Taylor 1772-1834 61
Collins,John 1742-1808 68
Cooper,George 1840-1905 73
Cowper,William 1731-1800 77
Crapsey,Adelaide 1878-1914 79
Davenport,Allen 1775-1846 81
Davies,William Henry 1871-1940 83
Dickinson,Emily 1830-1886 93
Donne,John 1572-1631 105
Emerson,Ralph Waldo 1830-1882 108
Fletcher,John 1579-1625 112
Hardy,Thomas 1840-1928 114
Herbert,George 1592-1633 126
Herrick,Robert 1591-1674 128
Hill,Joe 1879-1915 132
Hood,Thomas 1799-1845 134
Housman,Alfred Edward 1859-1936 142
Jones,Ernest 1819-1869 146
Jonson,Ben 1572-1637 148
Keats,John 1795-1821 154
Kilmer,Joyce 1886-1918 162
Kipling,Rudyard 1865-1936 164
Lamb,Charles 1775-1834 170
Langbridge,Frederick 1849-1923 174
Lawrence,David Herbert 1885-1930 176
Long fellow,Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882 181
Lovelace,Richard 1618-1657 202
Lowell,James Russell 1819-1891 204
Mackay,Charles 1814-1889 210
Milton,John 1608-1674 214
Moore,Thomas 1779-1852 218
Nashe,Thomas 1567-1601 224
Norton,Elizabeth Sarah 1808-1877 226
Payne,John Howard 1791-1852 230
Peacock,Thomas Love 1785-1866 234
Peele,George 1558?-1597 236
Poe,Edgar Allan 1809-1849 238
Pope,Alexander 1688-1744 243
Procter,Bryan Waller 1787-1874 249
Rogers,Samuel 1763-1855 255
Rossetti,Christina 1830-1894 257
Rossetti,Dante Gabriel 1828-1882 267
Ruskin,John 1819-1900 271
Shakespeare,William 1564-1616 273
Shelley,Percy Bysshe 1792-1822 283
Shirley,James 1596-1666 295
Sidney,Philip 1554-1586 297
Southey,Robert 1774-1843 299
Stevenson,Robert Louis 1850-1894 303
Taylor,Jane 1783-1824 307
Teasdale,Sara 1884-1933 313
Tennyson,Alfred 1809-1892 315
Thomson,James 1834-1882 321
Thoreau,Henry David 1817-1862 323
Van Dyke,Henry 1852-1933 327
White,Henry Kirke 1785-1806 331
Whitman,Walt 1819-1882 333
Wilcox,Ella Wheeler 1855-1900 342
Wilde,Richard Henry 1789-1847 346
Willson,Forceythe 1837-1867 350
Wordsworth,William 1770-1850 352
Wyat,Sir Thomas 1503-1542 370
Yeats,William Butler 1865-1939 372
Anonymous Authors 375
Bibliography 403
Notes on the Poets 406