The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English

The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English is a poetry anthology edited by Michael Schmidt, and published in 1999. Schmidt is an American academic and long-term UK resident, who is the founder of Carcanet Press; he has also written extensive biographical books about poets.

A paperback edition was issued in London by Harvill Press in 2000 with ISBN 1-86046-735-0.

Poets in The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
These 117 poets are represented in the anthology:


 * Simon Armitage
 * John Ash
 * John Ashbery
 * W. H. Auden
 * George Barker
 * James K. Baxter
 * Patricia Beer
 * John Berryman
 * John Betjeman
 * Sujata Bhatt
 * Elizabeth Bishop
 * Eavan Boland
 * Kamau Brathwaite
 * Basil Bunting
 * Gillian Clarke
 * David Constantine
 * Wendy Cope
 * Hart Crane
 * E. E. Cummings
 * Allen Curnow
 * Donald Davie
 * H. D.
 * Mark Doty
 * Keith Douglas


 * Carol Ann Duffy
 * Robert Duncan
 * T. S. Eliot
 * William Empson
 * Elaine Feinstein
 * James Fenton
 * Roy Fisher
 * Veronica Forrest-Thomson
 * Robert Frost
 * Allen Ginsberg
 * Louise Glück
 * Jorie Graham
 * W. S. Graham
 * Robert Graves
 * Ivor Gurney
 * Sophie Hannah
 * Thomas Hardy
 * Tony Harrison
 * Gwen Harwood
 * Seamus Heaney
 * Geoffrey Hill
 * Michael Hofmann
 * A. D. Hope


 * A. E. Housman
 * Langston Hughes
 * Ted Hughes
 * Randall Jarrell
 * Robinson Jeffers
 * Elizabeth Jennings
 * David Jones
 * Patrick Kavanagh
 * Thomas Kinsella
 * Rudyard Kipling
 * R. F. Langley
 * Philip Larkin
 * D. H. Lawrence
 * Gwyneth Lewis
 * Robert Lowell
 * Mina Loy
 * Norman MacCaig
 * Hugh MacDiarmid
 * Sorley MacLean
 * Louis MacNeice
 * Derek Mahon
 * Bill Manhire
 * Glyn Maxwell
 * James Merrill


 * Charlotte Mew
 * Christopher Middleton
 * Edna St. Vincent Millay
 * Robert Minhinnick
 * Marianne Moore
 * Edwin Morgan
 * Andrew Motion
 * Edwin Muir
 * Paul Muldoon
 * Les Murray
 * Lorine Niedecker
 * Frank O'Hara
 * Charles Olson
 * George Oppen
 * Wilfred Owen
 * Michael Palmer
 * John Peck
 * Robert Pinsky
 * Sylvia Plath
 * Ezra Pound
 * F. T. Prince
 * John Crowe Ransom
 * Henry Reed


 * Adrienne Rich
 * Laura Riding
 * Theodore Roethke
 * Isaac Rosenberg
 * E. J. Scovell
 * Peter Scupham
 * Burns Singer
 * C. H. Sisson
 * Iain Crichton Smith
 * Stevie Smith
 * Stephen Spender
 * Wallace Stevens
 * Dylan Thomas
 * Edward Thomas
 * R. S. Thomas
 * Charles Tomlinson
 * Jeffrey Wainwright
 * Derek Walcott
 * Richard Wilbur
 * William Carlos Williams
 * Yvor Winters
 * Judith Wright
 * W. B. Yeats