The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse

The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Philip Larkin. It was published in 1973 by Oxford University Press with ISBN 0-19-812137-7. Larkin writes in the short preface that the selection is wide rather than deep; and also notes that for the post-1914 period it is more a collection of poems, than of poets. The remit was limited by him to poets with a period of residence in the British Isles. Larkin's generous selection of Thomas Hardy's poems has been noted for its influence on Hardy's later reputation. On the other hand, he was criticized, notably by Donald Davie, for his inclusion of "pop" poets such as Brian Patten. The volume contains works by 207 poets.

Contributing poets
Allison, Drummond

Allott, Kenneth

Amis, Kingsley

Asquith, Herbert

Auden, W. H.

Bantock, Gavin

Barker, George

Barton, Joan

Beer, Patricia

Beerbohm, Max

Bell, Martin

Belloc, Hilaire

Bennett, Arnold

Benson, Stella

Betjeman, John

Binyon, Laurence

Blackburn, Thomas

Blunden, Edmund

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen

Lyon, Lilian Bowes

Bridges, Robert

Brooke, Rupert

Brownjohn, Alan

Bunting, Basil

Cameron, Norman

Campbell, Joseph

Campbell, Roy

Cannan, May Wedderburn

Caudwell, Christopher

Causley, Charles

Chesterton, G. K.

Church, Richard

Clarke, Austin

Cole, Barry

Cole, G. D. H.

Colum, Padraic

Comfort, Alex

Connor, Tony

Conquest, Robert

Cornford, Frances

Coward, Noël

Currey, R. N.

Davidson, John

Davie, Donald

Davies, Idris

Davies, W. H.

Day-Lewis, Cecil

Dehn, Paul

de la Mare, Walter

Douglas, Keith

Drinkwater, John

Dunn, Douglas

Durrell, Lawrence

Dyment, Clifford

Eliot, T. S.

Ellis, Colin

Empson, William

Enright, D. J.

Ewart, Gavin

Falkner, John Meade

Flecker, James Elroy

Flint, F. S.

Frankau, Gilbert

Fraser, G. S.

Fuller, Roy

Garioch, Robert

Gascoyne, David

Gibson, Wilfrid

Gittings, Robert

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

Gould, Gerald

Graham, W. S.

Gransden, K. W.

Graves, Robert

Green F. Pratt

Grenfell, Julian

Grigson, Geoffrey

Gunn, Thom

Gurney, Ivor

Haldane, J. B. S.

Hamburger, Michael

Hardy, Thomas

Harvey, F. W.

Hassall, Christopher

Heath-Stubbs, John

Henri, Adrian

Herbert, A. P.

John Hewitt

Higgins, Brian

Higgins, F. R.

Hill, Geoffrey

Hobsbaum, Philip

Hodgson, Ralph

Holbrook, David

Holden, Molly

Housman, A. E.

Hughes, Ted

Hulme, T. E.

Iremonger, Valentin

Isherwood, Christopher

Ivens, Michael

Jennings, Elizabeth

Joseph, Jenny

Joyce, James

Kavanagh, P. J.

Kavanagh, Patrick

Keyes, Sidney

Kinsella, Thomas

Kipling, Rudyard

Kirkup, James

Larkin, Philip

Lawrence, D. H.

Lehmann, John

Lerner, Lawrence

Lewis, Alun

Lewis, C. S.

Lewis, Wyndham

Logue, Christopher

Lowry, Malcolm

Lucie-Smith, Edward

MacBeth, George

MacCaig, Norman

MacDiarmid, Hugh

MacDonagh, Donagh

MacNeice, Louis

Madge, Charles

Masefield, John

McGough, Roger

Mew, Charlotte

Meynell, Alice

Michie, James

Miles, Susan

Mitchell, Adrian

Mitchell, Matthew

Monro, Harold

T. Sturge Moore

Muir, Edwin

E. Nesbit

Newbolt, Henry

Noyes, Alfred

Philip O'Connor

Moira O'Neill

Orwell, George

Owen, Wilfred

Herbert Palmer

Patten, Brian

Phillpotts, Eden

Pitter, Ruth

Plomer, William

Popham, Hugh

Porter, Peter

Powys, John Cowper

Prince, F. T.

Pudney, John

Raine, Kathleen

Read, Herbert

Redgrove, Peter

Reed, Henry

Reeves, James

Rendall, Robert

Rickword, Edgell

Roberts, Michael

Rosenberg, Isaac

Ross, Alan

Rowse, A. L.

Sackville-West, Vita

Sagittarius (Olga Katzin Miller)

Sassoon, Siegfried

Scannell, Vernon

Scovell, E. J.

Seymour-Smith, Martin

Shanks, Edward

Silkin, Jon

Sillitoe, Alan

Sisson, C. H.

Sitwell, Edith

Sitwell, Osbert

Smith, Iain Crichton

Smith, Stevie

Spencer, Bernard

Spender, Stephen

Squire, J. C.

Stephens, James

Strong, L. A. G.

Stuart, Muriel

Summers, Hal

Synge, J. M.

Tessimond, A. S. J.

Thomas, Dylan

Thomas, R. S.

Thwaite, Anthony

Tomlinson, Charles

Tonks, Rosemary

Wain, John

Walcott, Derek

Waley, Arthur

Watkins, Vernon

Wellesley, Dorothy

Wickham, Anna

Williams, Hugo

Wolfe, Humbert

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

Yeats, W. B.

Young, Andrew

Young, Francis Brett