Oxford religious poetry anthologies

Several anthologies of religious poetry have been published by Oxford University Press.

Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1921)
The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse was a poetry anthology edited by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee, and published in 1921 by the Oxford University Press. The compilation contains much religious verse, mainly from English Christian traditions, and some from other religions.

Present are poems by A. E. Waite and the young Aleister Crowley. Lee, an Anglican clergyman, associated with Waite. Nicholson later published a work on mysticism and St. Francis of Assisi. They both joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Lee in 1908, and Nicholson in 1910; both were friends of Charles Williams.

Eclecticism is shown by the presence of: Alfred Gurney, a clerical friend of Christina Rossetti; Edward Carpenter, Fabian socialist and homosexual; Frederic W. H. Myers, academic and psychic researcher; John Addington Symonds, aesthete; Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, writer on freemasonry and Wagner; Darrell Figgis, better known as a novelist and Sinn Féin member; George Santayana, the philosopher; Fred G. Bowles who was a Tin Pan Alley lyricist.

The poets included in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse were:

Lascelles Abercrombie

William Alexander

Edwin Arnold

Matthew Arnold

Philip James Bailey

Elsa Barker

George Barlow

Clifford Bax

Henry Charles Beeching

Arthur Christopher Benson

John Stuart Blackie

Francis William Bourdillon

Fred G. Bowles

Emily Brontë

Thomas Edward Brown

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning

Robert Buchanan

Alice Mary Bunston

John Byrom

Bliss Carman

Edward Carpenter

Henry Bernard Carpenter

Edward Caswall

Madison Julius Cawein

Nora Chesson

G. K. Chesterton

Wilfred Rowland Childe

Amy Clarke

Ellen Mary Clerke

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Henry Constable

James H. Cousins

William Cowper

Dinah Maria (Mulock) Craik

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Richard Crashaw

Arthur Shearly Cripps

Aleister Crowley

Victor James Daley

Thom Davies

William James Dawson

Margaret Deland

Aubrey Thomas De Vere

Ella Dietz

Richard Watson Dixon

Digby Mackworth Dolben

John Donne

Edward Dowden

Augusta Theodosia Drane

Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux

John Charles Earle

Edwin J. Ellis

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Frederick William Faber

Michael Field

Darrell Figgis

Phineas Fletcher

Christina Catherine Fraser-Tytler

Harold E. Goad

Eva Gore-Booth

Edmund Gosse

John Gray

Dora Greenwell

Alfred Gurney

Christopher Harvey

Frances Ridley Havergal

Robert Stephen Hawker

William Ernest Henley

George Herbert

Robert Herrick

Emily Henrietta Hickey

Kathleen Tynan Hinkson

Horace Holley

Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes

Paul Hookham

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gertrude M. Hort

Lord Houghton

Laurence Housman

Jean Ingelow

Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King

Archibald Lampman

Richard Le Gallienne

Ruth Temple Lindsay

Alfred Comyn Lyall

George MacDonald

James Clarence Mangan

Andrew Marvell

John Masefield

Eugene Mason

George Meredith

Alice Meynell

Richard Monckton Milnes

Susan Mitchell

Harold Monro

Lewis Morris

John Spencer Muirhead

Frederic W. H. Myers

Sarojini Nayadu

Henry Newbolt

John Henry Newman

Roden Noel

Alfred Noyes

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

Henry Nutcombe Oxenham

John Oxenham

Francis Turner Palgrave

Coventry Patmore

Joseph Mary Plunkett

Edgar Allan Poe

Alexander Pope

May Probyn

Francis Quarles

James Rhoades

James Rennell Rodd

Richard Rolle

Christina Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

George William Russell (A. E.)

George Santayana

William Bell Scott

William Sharp

Percy Bysshe Shelley

R. A. Eric Shepherd

Dora Sigerson Shorter

Robert Southwell

James Stephens

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Joshua Sylvester

John Addington Symonds

Arthur Symons

John Bannister Tabb

Rachel Annand Taylor

Alfred Tennyson

Edith Matilda Thomas

Francis Thompson

Thomas Traherne

Herbert Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench

Evelyn Underhill

Henry Vaughan

C. M. Verschoyle

Samuel Waddington

Arthur Edward Waite

Clarence A. Walworth

Frederick William Orde Ward

David Atwood Wasson

Isaac Watts

Charles Weekes

Walt Whitman

Oscar Wilde

Sarah Williams

Walter Leslie Wilmshurst

William Wordsworth

W. B. Yeats

Oxford Book of Christian Verse (1940)
Edited by Lord David Cecil. Poets included were:

Joseph Addison

Matthew Arnold

John Austin

William Baldwin

Barnabe Barnes

William Barnes

Richard Baxter

Joseph Beaumont

Joseph Hilaire Belloc

William Blake

Edmund Bolton

Horatius Bonar

Katherine Bradley

Robert Bridges

Sir Thomas Browne

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning

Robert Williams Buchanan

John Bunyan

John Byrom

Thomas Campion

Patrick Carey

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Geoffrey Chaucer

G. K. Chesterton

John Clare

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Henry Constable

Edith Cooper

Abraham Cowley

William Cowper

George Crabbe

Richard Crashaw

Samuel Crossman

Sir John Davies

Richard Watson Dixon

Philip Doddridge

Digby Mackworth Dolben

John Donne

Gavin Douglas

William Drummond of Hawthornden

John Dryden

William Dunbar

T. S. Eliot

Michael Field

Giles Fletcher

Phineas Fletcher

Humphrey Gifford

Sidney Godolphin

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke

William Habington

John Hall

Christopher Harvey

Robert Stephen Hawker

Reginald Heber

Robert Henryson

George Herbert

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

Robert Herrick

Thomas Heywood

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lionel Johnson

Ben Jonson

John Keble

Thomas Ken

Charles Kingsley

John Lydgate

Andrew Marvell

James Merrick

Alice Meynell

Henry Hart Milman

John Milton

Henry More

William Morris

Frederic W. H. Myers

John Mason Neale

John Henry Newman

John Newton

John Norris of Bemerton

Clement Paman

Coventry Patmore

Thomas Pestel

Ruth Pitter

Alexander Pope

Francis Quarles

Sir Walter Ralegh

Richard Rolle of Hampole

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

William Shakespeare

Thomas Shepherd

Sir Edward Sherburne

James Shirley

Fredegond Shove

Sir Philip Sidney

John Skelton

Christopher Smart

Robert Southwell

Samuel Speed

Edmund Spenser

Richard Stanyhurst

William Force Stead

Jeremy Taylor

Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson

Francis Thompson

James Thomson

Augustus Montague Toplady

Thomas Traherne

Richard Chenevix Trench

Henry Vaughan

Edmund Waller

Nathaniel Wanley

Thomas Washbourne

Isaac Watts

James, John and Robert Wedderburn

Charles Wesley

Samuel Wesley (poet)

Robert Wild

Charles Williams

Richard Wilton

William Wordsworth

Sir Henry Wotton

Edward Young

New Oxford Book of Christian Verse (1981)
Edited by Donald Davie. Poets included were:

Joseph Addison

Cliff Ashby

W. H. Auden

William Baldwin

Clifford Bax

Richard Baxter

Wendell Berry

John Berryman

Sir John Betjeman

Thomas Binney

William Blake

Anne Bradstreet

Robert Bridges

John Bunyan

Robert Burns

John Byrom

Thomas Campion

Geoffrey Chaucer

John Clare

Jack Clemo

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Cowper

Richard Crashaw

Peter Dale

Elizabeth Daryush

Emily Dickinson

Philip Doddridge

John Donne

H.D.

John Dryden

William Dunbar

Timothy Dwight IV

T. S. Eliot

John Meade Falkner

Padraic Fallon

Giles Fletcher

George Gascoigne

Sidney Godolphin

Fulke Greville

Isaac Hann

Reginald Heber

George Herbert

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

Robert Herrick

Geoffrey Hill

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Julia Ward Howe

Alexander Hume

Elizabeth Jennings

David Jones

Ben Jonson

John Keble

Thomas Ken

William Kethe

Thomas Kinsella

William Langland

Janet Lewis

Henry Francis Lyte

Andrew Marvell

Alice Meynell

John Milton

Alexander Montgomerie

James Montgomery

Edwin Muir

James McAuley

John Mason Neale

John Henry Newman

John Newton

Urian Oakes

Edward Perronet

F. T. Prince

Matthew Prior

Francis Quarles

Christina Rossetti

William Shakespeare

Sir Philip Sidney

C. H. Sisson

Christopher Smart

Stevie Smith

Robert Southwell

Edmund Spenser

Nahum Tate

Edward Taylor

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

R. S. Thomas

Francis Thompson

Augustus Montague Toplady

Thomas Traherne

Henry Vaughan

Jones Very

Edmund Waller

Robert Penn Warren

Thomas Washbourne

Isaac Watts

Charles Wesley

John Brooks Wheelwright

William Whiting

John Greenleaf Whittier

Charles Williams

William Wordsworth

Sir Thomas Wyatt