Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935

The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 is a poetry anthology edited by W. B. Yeats and published in 1936 by Oxford University Press. A long introductory essay starts from the proposition that the poets included should be all the "good" ones (implicitly the field is Anglo-Irish poetry, though notably a few Indian poets are there) active since the death of Tennyson. In fact, the selection of poets is idiosyncratic: late Victorians are strongly represented, while the war poets of the First World War are not. The modernist tendency does not predominate, though it is not ignored; Georgian poetry is covered quite thoroughly; and Oliver St. John Gogarty is given space and praised in the introduction as a great poet.

Yeats was influenced by his personal feelings, including poems by friends (e.g. Gogarty, Shri Purohit Swami), as well as Margot Ruddock, with whom he was having a relationship. He notes that Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound are under-represented because paying their royalties would have cost too much, though he did not say which of their poems he would have included.

Poets in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935

 * Lascelles Abercrombie
 * W. H. Auden
 * George Barker
 * Julian Bell
 * Hilaire Belloc
 * Laurence Binyon
 * Edmund Blunden
 * Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
 * Gordon Bottomley
 * Thomas Boyd
 * Robert Bridges
 * Rupert Brooke
 * Joseph Campbell
 * Roy Campbell
 * G. K. Chesterton
 * Richard Church
 * Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
 * Padraic Colum
 * Alfred Edgar Coppard
 * Frances Cornford
 * William Henry Davies
 * Edward Davison
 * Walter de la Mare
 * Ernest Dowson
 * John Drinkwater


 * T. S. Eliot
 * Edwin John Ellis
 * William Empson
 * Michael Field
 * James Elroy Flecker
 * John Freeman
 * Manmohan Ghose
 * Wilfrid Gibson
 * Oliver St. John Gogarty
 * Augusta, Lady Gregory
 * Julian Grenfell
 * Thomas Hardy
 * William Ernest Henley
 * Frederick Robert Higgins
 * Ralph Hodgson
 * Gerard Manley Hopkins
 * A. E. Housman
 * Richard Hughes
 * Lionel Johnson
 * James Joyce
 * Rudyard Kipling
 * D. H. Lawrence


 * Cecil Day-Lewis
 * Hugh M'Diarmid
 * Thomas MacGreevy
 * Louis MacNeice
 * Charles Madge
 * John Masefield
 * Edward Powys Mathers
 * Alice Meynell
 * Harold Monro
 * Thomas Sturge Moore
 * Henry Newbolt
 * Robert Nichols
 * Frank O'Connor
 * Walter Pater
 * Vivian de Sola Pinto
 * William Plomer
 * Ezra Pound
 * Frederick York Powell
 * Herbert Read
 * Ernest Rhys
 * Michael Roberts
 * Thomas William Hazen Rolleston
 * Margot Ruddock
 * George William Russell
 * Victoria Sackville-West


 * Siegfried Sassoon
 * Geoffrey Scott
 * Edward Shanks
 * Edith Sitwell
 * Sacheverell Sitwell
 * Stephen Spender
 * J. C. Squire
 * William Force Stead
 * James Stephens
 * Leonard Strong
 * Frank Pearce Sturm
 * Shri Purohit Swami
 * Arthur Symons
 * John Millington Synge
 * Rabindranath Tagore
 * Edward Thomas
 * Francis Thompson
 * Herbert Trench
 * Walter James Turner
 * Arthur Waley
 * Sylvia Townsend Warner
 * Dorothy Wellesley
 * Oscar Wilde
 * W. B. Yeats